Colonialism

The Voice of Freedom: Congress Radio’s Challenge to British Rule

The underground Congress Radio was a story of plucky young nationalists challenging foreign rule during the Quit India Movement and contesting colonial control of the airwaves.
▶11-Jul-2024
Isabel Huacuja Alonso
Book
Book Review

Floating in an Ocean of Laws

Indians displaced across South and Southeast Asia between the 1940s and the 1960s used the law to make claims of the new states emerging from the end of colonialism.
▶17-Jun-2024
Tarangini Sriraman
Book
Book Review

A People Made for Democracy

Anticolonial leaders saw self-rule as intrinsically linked to projects of political education and economic advancement. A new study that charts these links between development and democracy resonates…
▶27-May-2024
Dinyar Patel

Colonial Lines and Postcolonial Conflicts in North East India

The incorporation of the North East into the Indian Union replicated the colonial order of administrating tribe and territory. The history of the region since has been of shots fired, initially…
▶31-Oct-2023
Jelle J.P. Wouters
Explainer

Palestine and Israel: Historical, Legal and Moral Issues

On 7 October, Hamas committed a war crime when in its attack on Israel, hundreds of civilians were killed, but since 1948 the scale of the crimes against the Palestinians repeatedly committed by…
▶24-Oct-2023
Rohini Hensman

Why White Americans see the Brutality of Hamas but do not see the Brutalities Inflicted on the Palestinians

The reason why many decent Americans do not see the tragedy of the Palestinians is that Israel is doing to Palestine what white Americans did to the Native Americans.
▶16-Oct-2023
Tabish Khair
Book
Book Review

Cracks in the Mirror

Colonial mythographies end up reproducing colonialism’s own myths of omnipotence and omniscience. The labour of writing histories of colonialism lies in seeing the cracks in the mirror.
▶10-Jul-2023
Vipin Krishna

Macaulay’s Ghost: The Unimportance and Importance of English

What stand should one take between the campaign for decolonisation of the Indian mind and that giving pre-eminence to English? We ought to develop a universalism that is attentive to local cultures…
▶08-May-2023
Peter Ronald deSouza

Don't Judge the Past through the Eyes of the Present

It would be wrong to use present-day norms to label certain historical events as crimes. If we must judge the past, it should be in relation to its time, rather than our present.
▶19-Jan-2023
Alok Sheel

Covid-19 and the Spectres of Colonialism

India’s lockdowns and questionable experimentation with vaccines and drugs to fight Covid-19 eerily mimic its colonial past.
▶09-Jul-2020
Pratik Chakrabarti