Sven Beckert tells a world-spanning story with some very revisionist takes in this discussion with host Dinyar Patel.

Pronoti Datta uses food and restaurants as windows into Maximum City’s complex social and political landscape.

In his recent book, Joshua Ehrlich presents a rich portrait of how scholars and scholarship played explicit political roles during the Company Raj.

Journalist and author John Cassidy offers a historical compass to contemporary debates.

Photography can reveal different histories of a well-documented event, say Avrati Bhatnagar and Sumathi Ramaswamy in conversation with Dinyar Patel.

As the days grow colder this winter season, it’s the perfect time to settle in with a great read. Explore our latest reading recommendations—there’s something here for every kind of reader. We hope th...

Sam Dalrymple on ‘Shattered Lands – Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia’.

Newly found photos highlight women’s key role in Mahatma Gandhi’s civil disobedience movement against British rule.

More than 40 years after it was published, ‘City of Gold’ remains an important text for historians and researchers.

Padraic X Scanlan discusses his new book, ‘Rot: A History of the Irish Famine’ with Dinyar Patel.

Tracing the rise and decline of Chettiar businesses across Asia challenges the idea that caste-based capital can always deliver fortunes.

Women were at the forefront of the Civil Disobedience Movement – leading processions, picketing foreign cloth shops, breaking the salt laws.

Under colonial rule, the written word was one of the few weapons available to Indian political leaders. They made remarkable use of it. It is not too much of an exaggeration to say that Indians used b...

The magazine, started in 1964, chronicled the achievements and arguments of the Parsi community around the world – with an eye on the big picture.

In this epic account, Bancroft Prize–winning historian Beckert (Empire of Cotton) charts the rise of the modern global economic ...

There is a yawning gap between their visions and independent India’s woeful track record in educating its citizens.

Was India’s only female prime minister a populist, an authoritarian, or something else? Author Srinath Raghavan discusses why her regime could be ‘Caesarist’.

The alarm and fright in the city revealed the brittle, ultimately ephemeral nature of the British empire – the most powerful empire in world history.

Though mocked for their dietary and drinking habits, the group set a template for progressive reform that resonates in India even today, says Rosinka Chaudhuri.

Though mocked for their dietary and drinking habits, the group set a template for progressive reform that resonates in India even today, says Rosinka Chaudhuri.

The career of M. Visvesvaraya, arch-technocrat and statesman, throws much light on how India embraced the idea of modernisation through industrialisation.

Dadabhai Naoroji was part of the 'Young Bombay' reformist clique group, which had progressive views on women’s education and rationalisation of religious practices.

Masselos wrote about the world of the urban mohalla, crowds and popular culture, and the changing rhythms of everyday life in the city.

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In conversation with host Dinyar Patel, historian Manu S Pillai examines how actors from Voltaire to VD Savarkar influenced one of the world’s oldest faiths.