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NBN Episodes hosted by Dhara:
May 17, 2013
Shi'a Islam in Colonial India
Justin Jones' book, Shi'a Islam in Colonial India: Religion, Community and Sectarianism (Cambridge University Press, 2012) is all about Lucknow, and c…
November 18, 2012
Mission to Madurai
Presenting- and being granted an audience- at the court of a foreign potentate was the way to gain legitimacy, acceptance, and often, protection to be…
October 13, 2012
Empire, Politics and the Creation of the 1935 India Act
It was the last in a long line of 'Acts' designed to ensure better colonial governance for the Indian sub-continent. It was an Act which was vociferou…
August 25, 2012
Philip Angel's Deex-Autaers
In 1658, a Dutch East India Company merchant by the name of Philip Angel presented a gift manuscript to Company Director Carel Hartsinck. It was inten…
June 9, 2012
Noble Brutes
This is a book about horses. Donna Landry's Noble Brutes: How Eastern Horses Transformed English Culture (The John Hopkins University Press, 2009) is …
May 22, 2012
God's Arbiters
Mark Twain called it "pious hypocrisies." President McKinley called it "civilizing and Christianizing." Both were referring to the U.S. annexation of …
April 18, 2012
Richard Blechynden's Calcutta Diaries, 1791-1822
Richard Blechynden came to Calcutta in 1782 as a twenty two year old, and stayed there for the rest of his life, working as a surveyor and architect. …
March 14, 2012
Britain and the Islamic World, 1558-1713
Nineteenth-century observers would say that the British Empire was an Islamic one; be that as it may, before Empire there was trade- and lots of it. N…
March 8, 2012
Russian Colonial Society in Tashkent, 1865-1903
Konstantin von Kaufmann, Governor-General of Russian Turkestan from 1867 until his death in 1882, wanted to be buried in Tashkent if he died in office…
February 21, 2012
War and Nationalism in South Asia
North East India is, as Marcus Franke's War and Nationalism in South Asia: The Indian State and the Nagas (Routledge, 2011) all too convincingly demon…
February 7, 2012
Law, History, Colonialism
English common law is prevalent across large parts of the world; and all thanks to the British Empire. It was not just culture and commerce that came …
December 16, 2011
Flora's Garden
Horticulture is not an activity normally associated with Empire building. But Eugenia Herbert's book Flora's Empire: British Gardens in India (Philade…
November 30, 2011
The Company-State
'Traders to rulers' is an enduring caption insofar as the English East India Company is concerned. But were they ever just traders to start off with, …
November 15, 2011
Russian Rule in Samarkand, 1868-1910
Great Britain and Russia faced off across the Pamirs for much of the nineteenth century; their rivalries and animosities often obscuring underlying co…
October 24, 2011
Accountancy and Empire
For an empire supposedly founded on the back of trade, not much attention has been paid to how the finances of the British Empire were organized- or t…
October 5, 2011
Russia's Own Orient
Everyone knows that the late nineteenth-century Russian Empire was the largest land based empire around, and that it was growing yet- at fifty-five sq…
September 30, 2011
Southeast Asia in World History
A book called Southeast Asia in World History (Oxford University Press, 2009) might seem on the face of it to be out of place on a blog about South As…
September 13, 2011
Food Culture in Colonial Asia
Hobson-Jobson was not just about administration and geopolitics- the language of Empire extended to its culinary endeavours as well. Thus chota hazri,…
August 15, 2011
Classics and Imperialism in the British Empire
The Greco-Roman world was the prism through which the British viewed their imperial efforts, and Mark Bradley's compendium Classics and Imperialism in…
August 11, 2011
Peasant Pasts
The odds are that if you don't figure in an administration's records, you won't figure in the historical record. But what do you do to get into those …
July 25, 2011
Ahmedabad
As Ahmedabad, the chief city of Gujarat state in Western India, puts itself up as a contender for World Heritage status, Howard Spodek's lovely book, …
July 15, 2011
Bombay Islam
Bombay (Mumbai), India, is a city that has never lacked chroniclers from Rudyard Kipling to Salman Rushdie to Suketu Mehta, bards of pluralism have wr…
July 5, 2011
Dutch Ships in Tropical Waters
The Dutch broke the Portuguese commercial and colonizing monopoly in the East in 1595; the seal might have been said to have been set on this triumph …
July 5, 2011
History in Uniform
Nugroho Notosusanto (1930-1985) never pursued a military career; but all the same he did his bit for the Indonesian armed forces. He was co-opted into…