Bengal (undivided)
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Who did the Brits conquer India from?
Did the British take India from the Muslims or from the Hindus? The question cannot be answered, because it was never true. The empire they inherited had already fallen apart,…
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The End of Pre-colonial Modernity and it’s Present Implications
FlyDie argues that Raghunatha Siromani’s logic in the Bengal sultanate marked an early form of modernity in South Asia, and that colonial rule ended this indigenous trajectory with consequences today.…
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Partition’s Impact on India’s Regional Quadrants
Argues that Partition reshaped five regional quadrants of undivided India. It fragmented Punjab and the Indo-Gangetic heartland, diminished Bengal by splitting Kolkata from Dhaka, cut Bombay off from Karachi, and…