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Half-Meetings: Indian Emotional Responses to World War Two

Half-Meetings: Indian Emotional Responses to World War Two

by royalhistsoc | 18 Nov 2020 | Race, Ethnicity and Equality, RHS Work

Two-and-a-half million men from undivided India served the British during the Second World War. Their experiences have been little remembered, either in the UK where a European/US-centric memory of the war dominates, or in modern South Asia where nationalist histories...
Beyond this Day – 29 January 1838: Indian Indentured Trade and ‘The First Crossing’

Beyond this Day – 29 January 1838: Indian Indentured Trade and ‘The First Crossing’

by | 29 Jan 2020 | Guest Posts

Empires are defined by movement—whether of goods, ideas or peoples. Bringing sugar to the metropolitan plate has a long and complicated history, involving labour migration across continents, instances of plantation brutality, slavery, and other forms of unfree labour....
A Historian and his Times: Sushil Chaudhury and the History of Eighteenth-Century Bengal

A Historian and his Times: Sushil Chaudhury and the History of Eighteenth-Century Bengal

by | 27 Jun 2019 | Guest Posts

Professor Sushil Chaudhury, historian of eighteenth-century Bengal, and General President Elect of the Indian History Congress, died earlier this year. In this piece for the RHS blog, Professor Peter J. Marshall places his friend’s work in the context of his...
Beyond this Day – 6 May 1919: The Third Anglo-Afghan War and the Attack on “Warlike” Pathans.

Beyond this Day – 6 May 1919: The Third Anglo-Afghan War and the Attack on “Warlike” Pathans.

by | 06 May 2019 | Guest Posts

Monday, 6 May 2019 marks a hundred years since the outbreak of the Third Anglo-Afghan War (6 May – 8 August 1919). In the first of a new series of posts examining the histories beyond significant dates, Kate Imy (Assistant Professor of History, University of...

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