Four centuries ago, the Muslim population of Dhaka was relatively small. However, the arrival of the Mughals precipitated a ...

Historiographically, the history presented in this volume fills a crucial academic gap by giving a voice to many voiceless ...

The struggle that commenced early in the 20th century, even before the time of Mahatma Gandhi's non-violent struggle for ...

JOGINDER BAINS argues that the infamously cruel and calculated mass murder of Indians blocked into a public square and fired upon by the British Indian Army still faces a reckoning ...

This criticism was valid, as it allowed the partition of Punjab and Bengal ... willing to let a united and independent Bengal emerge on August 15, 1947, but then, Jawaharlal Nehru and Vallabhbhai ...

Boycott and Swaraj: these were weapons of mass unrest and grievance to challenge the British Indian Government announcement ...

These rooms contain scattered memorabilia from before and after the 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan ... “Why is Golden Bengal a Crematorium?”. The exhibition also includes images of ...

The legacy of the Elias Meyer Free School and Talmud Torah in Kolkata’s Bowbazaar, which is celebrating its centennial year, ...

The notion of a separate homeland was fully formulated gradually in 1940-47 as the political movement for Pakistan carried on in these years. One cannot understand the establishment of Pakistan ...