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women with hands raised in air holding a sign protesting the Bhopal Chemical disaster
The Bhopal Chemical Gas Disaster
Exterior view of the Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal, India,
The Bhopal Chemical Gas Disaster
fire at plant in Bhopal in background people lost in the fire
Remembering Bhopal: The World's Worst Industrial Disaster
Lydia Walker
Postwar Decolonization and its Discontents
Aurangzeb in a pavilion with courtiers below.
Aurangzeb: Mughal Emperor
soldiers holding guns near a body of water
The Bangladesh Liberation War
Nationalist poster depicting Pakistani atrocities during the war
The Bangladesh Liberation War
Close-up of Indian couple's hands during wedding ceremony
Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India
A COVID-19 antigen testing center in Warora, Maharashtra, India.
The Deep Roots of India’s COVID-19 Crisis
Film poster for Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (1995).
Top Ten Origins: Bollywood Films
Film poster for Pather Panchali (1955).
Top Ten Origins: From Bollywood to Indywood
school girls in class - Studying biology and physics from English textbooks presents challenges in understanding the material but is necessary because their state examinations will be in English.
A Postcard from Pakistan: Girls Education in Gilgit-Baltistan
Amritsar Massacre
The Amritsar Massacre (1919)
flags of India and Pakistan
India-Pakistan Partition
Men and women in Karnataka, India, voting in 2009 General Election.
Right-Wing Politics in India
Indian bicycle troops are pictured at the Somme in 1916
The Amritsar Massacre
Refugees crowded emergency trains leaving to India or Pakistan c. 1947-1953
India-Pakistan Partition
Queen Mary’s College, opened in 1914.
A Postcard from Madras: A City Born of the Colonial Encounter
Indian troops in Burma, 1944.
A Forgotten Theater of War
BJP rally in India
The Politics of India
Three Afghan police trainees, sitting on ground with guns
Afghanistan: Past and Prospects
Flag of Pakistan.
A Fresh Start for Pakistan?
In order, India’s Indira Gandhi, Pakistan’s Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and Bangladesh’s Mujibur Rahman
After Midnight
The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain, by Nicholas B. Dirks book cover.
The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain