Book Review: A History of Assam by Edward A. Gait
This book is a good start for those who wish to venture into the history of Assam and North- east India but don’t know where to begin. Happy Reading!
The Past as Present: Forging Contemporary Identities through History by Romila Thapar
Prof Romila Thapar provides the reader with glimpses into her own experiences as she narrates anecdotes behind her work. The tribulations she and others faced while writing the NCERT textbooks in the 70s and how it has been revised over the decades.
Book Review: Historians of Medieval India: Studies in Indo-Muslim Historical Writings by Peter Hardy
Peter Hardy was a historian of Medieval India and an important scholar of Indo-Persian Historiography. He wrote extensively on the need for new interventions in the styles of history writing that move away from the imperialist lens that puts the West in the centre.
Book Review: Medieval India: From Sultanat to the Mughals (1526-1748) by Satish Chandra (Part Two)
This book written over two decades ago is one of the pioneer works on history of the medieval and early modern India. Published in 1999, it has some knowledge gaps which has been worked on by later historians.
Book Review: Medieval India: From Sultanat to the Mughals (1206-1526) by Satish Chandra
Book Review: Medieval India: From Sultanat to the Mughals (1206-1526) by Satish Chandra
Book Review: India Since Independence
This book was first published with a well-defined theme, as a continuation of India’s Struggle For Freedom in beginning of the new millennium as the first edition of this book titled India After Independence: 1947-2000.
Book Review: India’s Struggle for Independence
This book is the first of a two-part book series, which was partly a result of a research project on the Indian National Movement supervised by the renowned historian Bipan Chandra and funded by the Indian Council of Social Science Research.
The Five Muslim Women Achievers You Need to Know About
Begum Qudsia Aijaz Rasul (1909 – 2001) was the only Muslim woman in the Constituent Assembly of India that drafted the Constitution of India.
Queen Elizabeth, A Colonial Demise in the Decolonial Era
Queen Elizabeth II, the monarch of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth realm, passed away yesterday on the 8th of September 2022, at 18:30 BST.
The Blitzkrieg in World War II
The situation at Dunkirk in 1940 was extremely out of bounds for the British Army. Hundreds of thousands of men struggled to escape France, as the Luftwaffe swirled overhead. The Germans had advanced with terrifying speed, covering over a hundred and twenty miles in just five days. The Germans were employing the technique of Blitzkrieg.
Pleasant Jaunts and Arduous Journeys: Tales of Travel from Amir Hasan Sijzi’s Fawā’id Al-Fu’ād
Amir Hasan Sijzi (d.1337) recorded the conversations of his master, Shaykh Nizam ad-Din Awilya (d.1325), in the form the Fawā’id Al-Fu’ād (Morals of the Heart) between 1308 and 1322 C.E. The first and foremost representative of its genre.
