Ballot boxes, inking fingers: An 85-year-old remembers India’s first General Election

[ad_1] The hectic electioneering all around and the news of the first two phases of the general election take me back to India’s first polls in 1952.I was then a 13-year-old studying in Mumbai. It was my school winter vacation...

A new book talks of IM Lall, the ICS officer who defied the British Empire and won a case against it

[ad_1] Inder Mohan resided in several different cities, including Lahore and Ambala. He served as sessions judge from 1929 and was made permanent in July 1934.Life as children of an ICS officer was nothing less than royalty. The ICS consisted...

While Indians faced prejudice and abuse in Thailand, British colonists chose to dilly-dally

[ad_1] In January 1933, the editor of the Pinang Gazette in Penang, Malaya, received a letter from a reader writing under the pen name “An Indian well wisher”. The two-page note was posted from the southern Siamese town of Hat...

Twentieth-century texts show the relationship between Muslim tailors, their trade and their faith

[ad_1] In 1909, Sheikh Khwaja Muhammad, an “expert in the art of sewing” and a tailor in the city of Allahabad, published a short, seven-page history of his trade through a small local press. Titled the Risālah-yi Idrīsiyah (The treatise...