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How Calcutta’s Rani Rashmoni outwitted the British—twice

The ‘Rani’ in her name did not refer to royal status. It was an honorific given by the ordinary masses who loved her. She took on entrenched...

12.04.2025 10

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Dalrymple is right on WhatsApp history. Our textbooks don’t even mention that debates exist

Students are expected to learn a great many names, events, and dates. But nowhere is it emphasised sufficiently that history is much more than just...

19.11.2024 20

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Blue jeans, British censorship, Bengal revolt—Indigo’s history is long and violent

The plight of the cultivators was depicted by Dinabandhu Mitra in his play Neel Darpan published in 1860. It made English planters take out their...

03.11.2024 5

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How Calcutta’s Rani Rashmoni outwitted the British—twice

Krishnokoli Hazra

Dalrymple is right on WhatsApp history. Our textbooks don’t even mention that debates exist

Krishnokoli Hazra

Blue jeans, British censorship, Bengal revolt—Indigo’s history is long and violent

Krishnokoli Hazra