In the second part of this series, Dr. Francis provides an eye-opening picture of the manner in which the officers of the British Raj took enormous loans from our Mahajans and Shroffs (moneylenders) f ...
The first part of a series carrying excerpts from Dr. Francis, a British surgeon who stayed in India at the turn of the twentieth century and recorded his observations of our society, culture, beliefs ...
The 1891 diary of the British surgeon Dr. Francis offers us valuable raw material for doing a fuller historical analysis of British colonialism. While it is largely sympathetic to India, it does not r ...
A moving and evocative story of Devara Rangamma, a pious devotee of Sri Venkateshwara Swami of the 18th century who was visited by Bala Krishna everyday and ate butter from her hands.
A brief introduction to the Devala-Smriti, a very ancient Dharmasastra treatise. In the 10th century, a chapter titled Mlēccita-Śud'dhih was added to it, dealing with the reconversion of Hindus back t ...