At an exhibition at New Delhi's DAG, Swapna Liddle showed how Mughal art styles evolved as the East India Company strengthened its presence in the subcontinent.
‘Tipu Sultan: The Saga of Mysore’s Interregnum (1760–1799)’ by Vikram Sampath opens a window to the life and times of one of the most debated figures from India’s history.
In ‘The Other Mohan’, Amrita Shah tells the story of Indian migration through the journey of her great-grandfather from Bombay to South Africa in the early 1900s.
In the ‘Colonial Subjugation of India’, historian Amar Farooqui tells the story of the British empire’s rise and the instruments of coercion to rule over it.
Historian William Dalrymple gave a talk to art lovers at DAG about an orphaned world of Mughal paintings that embarrassed the British and was dismissed by the Indians.
Tipu Sultan is remembered as the Indian ruler who died fighting the British and did not take a pension. But that does not automatically make him a patriot.
In 'The Broken Script: Delhi Under the East India Company and the Fall of the Mughal Dynasty' Swapna Liddle details the complex tussle between the last two Mughal emperors and the East India company.
Industry insiders say any rise in duties on Indian generics will squeeze profits for Indian companies, but will also make the drugs costlier for patients in US.
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.
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