Cartoons of the Raj
Partha Mitter looks at how tensions and cultural interchange between Indians and Britons are conveyed in the imagery of the colonial period.
History Today
Kashmir: The Unanswered Question
Vernon Hewitt on one of the bitterest legacies of partition.
Bengal and Punjab - Before and Beyond
Jean Alphonse Bernard considers the two key provinces and how they became touchstones and then powderkegs in the nationalist aspirations of both sides.
Partition - The Human Cost
Mushirul Hasan looks at the reflection of the trauma and tragedy of partition through literature and personal histories.
Mahatma Gandhi and Nehru: India’s Frustrated Visionaries?
Judith Brown assesses the curious coupling of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru that achieved much – but not all – for Hindu aspirations.
How Does the Garden Grow?
Daniel Snowman on commerce and opera over fifty years at Covent Garden.
Out of Harmony - Indiana Histories
Lucy Jayne Kamau looks at the competing versions of the nineteenth-century pioneer past that folk history and the heritage industry have forged.
The Subcontinent and the Raj
Introductory chronology for this special commemorative issue marking 50 years since Britain relinquished colonial rule in the Indian subcontinent.
Art of the Soul Men
Alex Barker on Harlem's cultural heyday.
The Appliance of Science - The Georgian British Museum
A cabinet of curiosities or a medium for enlightening the general public? Patricia Fara looks at how debate over democratising scientific knowledge crystalised in the development of the newly-formed British Museum.