South Asia

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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
Cover of A History of Iran Empire of the Mind by Michael Axworthy.
Iran for Beginners