Calcutta subverted the concept of colonial modernity that was sought to be imposed by the British rulers. By using the same ...

Photography arrived in India during the 19th century, closely following its invention in Europe. In 1839, the Daguerreotype process was announced in Paris, and by the same year, the Bombay Times ...

UK lawmakers voted to decriminalise abortion in England and Wales, aiming to end prosecutions of women under a 19th-century ...

John Edward Sache is best known for his documentation of the Indian subcontinent in the mid-nineteenth century. Aligning with the contemporary Victorian interest in scientifically documenting ...

(Ananth Padmanabhan) The novel is a dual feat: Faruqi enters the mind of a fully dimensional 19th-century woman, willful and independent ... but I want to add that Penguin India's rose-tinted hardback ...

Indian multiplex chain PVR Inox is bringing Rekha and Muzaffar Ali's 1981 classic 'Umrao Jaan' back to the country's theaters in a 4K restoration.

Among them is Tarabai Shinde, a 19th-century feminist thinker and one of the first to author a modern feminist text in India. Her iconic work Stri Purush Tulana, written in Marathi, came as a ...