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
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
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
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