History and Historiography / The Death of Raghu the Poddar: An Unknown Incident from the East India Company’s Annals Raghu a Poddar or cashier working for the East India Company is accused of misappropriation and tortured by its officials By Sandeep Balakrishna / 29 Oct 2025
History and Historiography / The Exquisite Gauda Desha of Dhundiraja A detailed picture of the Bengal that the 17th Century Sanskrit Scholar Dhundiraja saw and described in his Sanskrit work, Girvanapadamanjari By Sandeep Balakrishna / 17 Nov 2020
History and Historiography / Bengal has a Hundred Gates for Entrance and not One for Departure The second part of our essay series tracing the history of the unrivalled prosperity of Bengal narrates the account of Francois Bernier By Sandeep Balakrishna / 12 Nov 2020
History and Historiography / The Bengal that was the Sprawling Economic Garden of the World The first part of a series narrating the prosperous economic empire of Bengal roughly from the 14th up to the 18th Century By Sandeep Balakrishna / 11 Nov 2020
