Viscount Valentia's diary recording his journey from Calcutta to Bhagalpur provides a candid picture of how an unapologetic colonist views Indians as an inferior people
A deep dive into some of the details of the East India Company's heartless loot of India gives us several insights into the intrinsic Briton character that was at the root of England's colonisation of large parts of the globe.
A brief history of the liquor industry in the 17th Century Mughal Empire and its interactions with the European trading merchants reveals a rather stark picture
The Nazar system was a defining feature of Islamic regimes in India. In practice, it normalised political and official corruption at all levels beginning with the monarch himself, and was responsible for disfiguring the ancient Sanatana ideals of Dharma and Karma.
The first part of an essay-series documenting the central role that Indian pepper played in deciding the fortunes of empires and nations. It is a sweeping journey of two thousand years told through a weightless fleck of Indian flora.
The Sanyasi Freedom Movement of the mid-18th Century had a centuries' old precedent in the tradition of Dhira-Yogis who formed a separate contingent in the Kingdoms of Rajaputana.
