The book under review introduces us to a whole new world of Indian diplomacy. It brings into focus a range of new diplomatic actors, sites, and negotiating ...

23 September 2026 New Diplomatic History Network 7th Conference Old and New Diplomacies of Peace and War Bizkaia Aretoa, Bilbao (Basque Country, Spain) 27–29 May 2027 We are living in times of war.…

Home Office’s fees are up to 10 times the processing cost – and rising every year

Laura Sangha A companion piece to: What is history for? Or: Doing history/thinking historically The train to Totnes this weekend was full of late holiday makers heading for Cornwall. They were grat…

A US scholar made her name as an expert on Nepal’s cultural heritage – while illicitly buying sacred artefacts and smuggling them out to the United States

Misinformation caused groups of people to gather at The Marriott Hotel

The Pakistani occupation army wrote a black chapter in the history of our War of Liberation on the 14th-15th December, 1971 by killing intellectuals in Dhaka city in a planned way.

An excerpt from the Introduction to ‘Coolie Migrants, Indian Diplomacy: Caste, Class and Indenture Abroad, 1914-67’, by Kalathmika Natarajan.

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150 academic posts at the University of Exeter are to be cut, most in the humanities but also in social sciences, engineering and environmental sciences

Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

The cuts that have been proposed at the University of Exeter demonstrates the crisis of purpose in Britain’s universities. Should not universities also be places to prepare for "eternal dwellings"?

The university paid over £10,000 in compensation for staff cuts

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A digital journey through 145 years of labour struggle, resilience, and progress in Bangladesh — from colonial mills to today's garment factories.

What do frictions in the founding story of a missionary women's college reveal about Indian women's struggles for education and internationalism? Sneha Krishnan unpacks the history of the Women's Christian College in colonial India.

Abstract. Over the centuries, millions of migrant laborers sailed from the Indian subcontinent, across the Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean, to shape what is

Rahul Rao wrote The Psychic Lives of Statues. These are their favorite books on the politics of controversial statues.

What did our forebears do during the Nazi era? A subject long shrouded in silence in German families. Now, the US National Archives has made millions of NSDAP membership cards available online.

The state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years.

The Journal of Mughal Studies, the first peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to this field, provides a venue for original researched scholarship on the diverse historical worlds connected to the Mughal Empire and its wider context. The journal takes a broad view of what is considered Mughal, welcoming contributions across the history, culture, politics, economy, art, architecture, and literature of the Mughal world, and embracing a wider temporal and geographical scope when these offer significant contributions to the field. Rather than restricting inquiry to the institutions of imperial rule or to a narrow chronological frame, it welcomes research that highlights the history of the diverse populations that lived under imperial rule and of communities whose histories intersected with or unfolded alongside imperial formations. Contributions drawing on archaeology, epigraphy, material culture, vernacular archives, and other non-traditional or interdisciplinary sources are especially welcome, as are studies attentive to subaltern actors, everyday practices, and the circulation of knowledge, goods, and people across regions. The journal also particularly welcomes research and analysis of museum and library collections, and reviews of public-facing outputs such as exhibitions, digital humanities projects, and public programs.

Dr Kalathmika Natarajan, a Lecturer in Modern South Asian History at the University of Exeter, recently sat down for a Forum interview to discuss her exciting new book, Coolie Migrants, Indian Dipl…