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Dec 20, 2020

Indigenous People and Settler Colonialism in the Andamans

The Andaman Islands are an archipelago located in the Bay of Bengal. Occupied by the British first in 1789, they became a part of independent India as the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands in 1947. While the British Raj was a form of extractive colonialism in mainland India…

Colonialism

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Indigenous People and Settler Colonialism in the Andamans
Indigenous People and Settler Colonialism in the Andamans
Colonialism

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Oct 23, 2020

Early Modern Surat

When I meet people from other parts of the world and they ask me where I’m from, I usually tell them I’m from “near Mumbai”. But I’m from Surat, a city that lies on the estuary of the Tapi River some 300 km north of Mumbai. While few people know…

Surat

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Early Modern Surat
Early Modern Surat
Surat

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Jun 1, 2020

From Motown to Growtown: Urban Agriculture in Detroit

Published first in Wharton International Business Review’s Fall 2018 Issue In 1932, Diego Rivera was commissioned by the Detroit Institute of Art to complete a series of murals — the Detroit Industry Murals — to depict the city as a center of industry and to showcase the booming metropolis that…

Detroit

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From Motown to Growtown: Urban Agriculture in Detroit
From Motown to Growtown: Urban Agriculture in Detroit
Detroit

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May 31, 2020

Saffronisation and Sanskrit Revival in India

The right-wing Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP), which rose to power in India in 2014 believes that “A common spoken language with a vast literary heritage should ameliorate all the problems which beset modern India” (Hastings, 2008). For the BJP and its allied Hindu Nationalist groups, this language is Sanskrit. Not…

Sanskrit

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Saffronisation and Sanskrit Revival in India
Saffronisation and Sanskrit Revival in India
Sanskrit

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May 28, 2020

The Indian Railway in Public Imagination

Like most Indian kids, I grew up traveling by train. My earliest memories of vacations, visiting family and seeing places other than the city I grew up in are associated with trains. My great grandparents owned a tea stall and my grandfather and dad grew up around trains and the…

India

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The Indian Railway in Public Imagination
The Indian Railway in Public Imagination
India

16 min read

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