Set in Stone: Victoria's Monuments in India
Mary Ann Steggles recalls the circumstances of the many monuments to Queen Victoria that were erected in India, and traces their fate.
Mary Ann Steggles recalls the circumstances of the many monuments to Queen Victoria that were erected in India, and traces their fate.
Huw V. Bowen asks whether the East India Company was one of the ‘most powerful engines’ of state and empire in British history.
Lucy Chester examines the processes by which the Indo-Pakistan border was drawn, dividing a single country into two.
The Indian ruler and resister of the East India Company was killed by the British on 4 May 1799.
The formal handover took place on January 6th, 1899.
Vernon Hewitt on one of the bitterest legacies of partition.
Mushirul Hasan looks at the reflection of the trauma and tragedy of partition through literature and personal histories.
Francis Robinson considers what the Muslims wanted - and what they got - out of the decision to divide the subcontinent on religious lines.
Jean Alphonse Bernard considers the two key provinces and how they became touchstones and then powderkegs in the nationalist aspirations of both sides.
Partha Mitter looks at how tensions and cultural interchange between Indians and Britons are conveyed in the imagery of the colonial period.