カテゴリー: Colonialism
A lesson from India | Superficial self-care | On yer bike | Sunak SunkRe commemorating slave traders (Letters, 22 September), wandering out the back of the Government Museum in Chennai, India, I chanced on a couple of abandoned statues of imperial maje…
Some say use of ‘Bharat’ is move to finally throw off colonial chains, others call it disastrous Narendra Modi vanity projectIndia or Bharat? As the history books show, this is a question that goes back centuries.As India prepares to host the G20 summi…
World leaders attending summit in New Delhi at weekend asked to dinner with ‘president of Bharat’India was buzzing with speculation over rumoured plans to scrap official use of the country’s English name, after a state-issued invitation to the G20 summ…
The success of Chandrayaan-3 goes well beyond providing images from the moon’s south pole“I let out an involuntary whoop when it landed,” my friend Shivansh told me. He was travelling on London Underground at the time. “Everyone on the tube was staring…
Artefacts taken from Balinese royal palace among items being returned – but do not include prehistoric ‘Java man’The Netherlands is handing back hundreds of valuable artefacts it removed from Indonesia and Sri Lanka during the colonial period, includin…
Colonialism was born from the greed for spices and led to today’s globalised world. I know because it’s my family’s storyIn 1603, James Lancaster arrived back in London after several years in pursuit of riches, bringing ships laden with peppercorns. He…
Practitioners fear Indian culture has been ‘suppressed by colonisation’ while some question accessibilityYoga has been a big part of Nadia Gilani’s life since she was introduced to the practice by her mother at the age of 16. A few years ago, after var…
Archaic laws include fining those who fail to beat a drum to beat back locusts or report money found in streetAn Indian minister has called for his country to abolish 1,500 archaic laws dating back to the British Raj.On the statute book are laws that r…
India’s Narenda Modi has suggested Queen Consort should not wear infamous gem on coronation dayThe phrase “jewel in the crown” once evoked Charles Dance, Peggy Ashcroft and the sepia-tinted prettiness of a 1980s Granada TV series. Today, in headlines a…
Readers respond to Afua Hirsch’s article calling for Britain to confront the painful truth of its colonial pastAfua Hirsch’s article explicitly describes the everlasting damage created in the name of colonialism (This is a Britain that has lost its Que…
In largest Commonwealth country, personal affection for Elizabeth II mingles with need for recognition of British colonial atrocities Over the course of her seven-decade reign, Queen Elizabeth II made three visits to India, a country she would herald f…
Study finds ‘widespread’ ill-treatment and extrajudicial executions during 1945-9 war of independenceMark Rutte, the prime minister of the Netherlands, has apologised after an inquiry revealed that the Dutch state condoned the systematic use of extraju…
Indian author says pillaging of lands and killing of indigenous people laid foundation for climate emergencyAmitav Ghosh can clearly remember his first interaction with the climate crisis. It was the early 2000s, and Ghosh, now one of India’s most cele…
Since its invention in the 1840s, photography has played an integral part in Indian art history. Although it is often said that India is the most photographed country in the world, the history of its representation is more complicated, and more politic…