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24: A Banned Book from Colonial India
By Tarika Khattar In 1932, Sajjad Zaheer, a law student briefly back in India from his studies at Oxford, met Ahmed Ali, an English lecturer at Lucknow University. Zaheer, who was heavily influenced by developing radical trends in Europe, decided to publish a collection of ten Urdu short stories entitled Angarey (Embers). The stories, five…
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Indian Independence 8,290 miles away: U.C. Berkeley and the Fight for Self-Rule
By Madhumitha Krishnan (@MadhumithaKris)[1] ‘…[India’s] teeming millions are dying of abject starvation, ever increasing famines and devastating epidemics. The present-day India needs readjustment and reconstruction socially, morally, and economically.’[2] So proclaimed Dr K. D. Shastri in his inaugural address at the 1915 International Hindustanee Student Convention in Chicago. Dr Shastri, a religious and social reformer, levied…
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Navigating Beyond the Naga Conflict: A Clash of Systems
by Vinolen John, @vinolenjohn Studies concerning histories of conflicts are always a thin line to tread. This is particularly true with regards to Naga History which revolves around facets of decolonisation, nation and identity construction, insurgency and conflict, inter alia. The Nagas are a group of disparate tribes in the highlands of India’s northeast and…
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Popery, or the Scarlet Church of the Malabar (and The Protestants who Named Her)
by David Martin (daim3@cam.ac.uk) @David_8293 “Accompanied by hundreds of drums, trumpets, and all the discordant noisy music of the country; with numberless torches and fireworks: the statue of the Saint placed on a car is charged with garlands of flowers and gaudy ornaments according to the taste of the country… Such is the mode in…
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