Colonial era
South Asia 1757–1947.
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Anandibai Joshi goes to America-1883
Omar Ali posts an extract from Anandibai Joshi’s 1883 speech explaining why she is going to America to study medicine, taken from the anthology To Raise a Fallen People, and…
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Major Amin: How the British Ruled India (and the USA failed in Afg)
Major Amin argues that the East India Company conquered India with a mostly native army, similar weapons and superior strategy, diplomacy and naval power, and says the US could learn…
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Review: Anarchy -A Highly skilled jester playing to the gallery- Dalrymple’s Jaundiced Revisionism about British East India Company
Major Agha Humayun Amin reviews William Dalrymple’s Anarchy and dismisses it as playing to the gallery, citing omissions such as Saadat Ali Khan’s role in the sack of Delhi, while…
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Soldier Sahibs-Review
A review, written for Herald magazine and reposted unedited, calls Charles Allen’s Soldier Sahibs old-fashioned and unapologetically imperialist but accurate and readable on Nicholson, Lumsden and Edwardes, while noting it…
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Episode 22 – The British East India Company
Episode 22 of the BrownCast: Shrikant, Gaurav and Omar talk to Maneesh about the beginning, consolidation and end of British East India Company rule in India, ending with the 1857…
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Episode 21: South India Post Vijayanagar Empire till 1857
Episode 21 of the BrownCast: Shrikanth tells Maneesh the history of South India after Vijayanagar up to 1857, covering the polities, their dealings with Europeans, and the socio-cultural legacy of…
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Episode 20: History of Europeans in India
Episode 20 of the BrownCast: Prathamesh and Omar talk to Maneesh about Europeans in India, as a precursor to a dedicated episode on the British, with references from Arrian to…
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The Survey of India
Hamid Hussain traces how the East India Company’s mapping of India and its frontiers grew from local military surveys into the Survey of India, driven by British and native explorers…
