Vijay Mishra changed forever when a cinema opened in his Fijian town, in 1951. He traces Bollywood’s shift from multicultural fantasy to Hindu nationalism.
Articles on Mughal empire
Displaying all articles
The artist’s current exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW, Birds in Far Pavilions, delicately weaves together art and memory.
The spirit of Baisakhi for Sikhs is reminiscent of the ideals of their gurus, who encouraged them to work toward building a just society.
Owls, once seen as harbingers of death, are now celebrated in popular literature and culture in North America and Britain.
Once the capital of the Mughal empire, Old Delhi is now under threat. Geo-information technology can reveal its previous form, function, and context, however, and so help preserve and bring it back to life.
Throughout its known history, Koh-i-Noor has been a symbol of imperial conquest and glory.
Victory City marks a return for Rushdie, who has not set a novel substantially on the Indian subcontinent for over a decade.
As water dripped in a remote cave, it left behind evidence of every monsoon season for a millennium. Scientists say it holds a warning for a country about to become the most populous on Earth.
A scholar on South Asian affairs traces the growth of Hindu nationalism, started by an atheist anti-colonial revolutionary, to the one adopted under Modi’s government.
Day 4 of our Understanding Islam series. Knowing the historical contributions of Islam and its influence on other faiths can help counter many assumptions about the religion today.
The Indian Ocean provides a new way of looking at world history that has been dominated by European accounts.
The teaching of Islam is often limited to its religious practice. How Christians, Jews and Muslims borrowed freely from each other in the realm of art, music, and literature is seldom discussed.
People have always known science would advance faster with various incentives and rewards. As modern experimental science took off, these took the form of gifts and favors to and from wealthy elites.
Amid renewed debate over Britain’s colonial debt to India, John MacKenzie discusses the history of the Koh-i-Noor diamond and discusses other Indian treasures that remain in British ownership.
Top contributors
-
Professor in the History of Art Islamic Art and Architecture, Yale University
-
Professor of African Literature, University of the Witwatersrand
-
PhD Student in Architectural and Landscape Heritage, Department of Architecture and Design, Politecnico di Torino
-
Professor of Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
-
Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences, California State University, Dominguez Hills
-
Emeritus Professor of History, Lancaster University
-
Associate professor, faculty of geo-information science and earth observation, University of Twente
-
Professor, Infrastructuring Urban Futures, University of Twente
-
Associate Professor of Global Environmental Change, Xi'an Jiaotong University
-
Associate Professor of History, University of Oregon
-
Lecturer in Literature and Migration, University of Bristol
-
Senior Lecturer, University of Pretoria
-
Associated professor, faculty of geo-information science and earth observation, University of Twente
-
PhD dandidate, faculty of geo-information science and earth observation, University of Twente
-
Professor of Anthropology, Macalester College