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 ...

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 yet also bound by ... (The Mirror of Beauty is available in a ...

It does not fall to many of us to be worshipped as a living god, but that was the fate of John Nicholson, a 19th century British army officer in the service of the East India Company. Nicholson ...

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 ...

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.