Asia Marital rape: No excuse for the inexcusable March 8, 2020 0 Image Credit: Parliament House by Gary Todd/Flickr; Licence: CC01.0 Universal (Public Domain) Written by Talish Ray. The Constitution of India under Articles 14 and 19…
Asia How not to study Indian literature: Against chauvinism February 20, 2020 1 Image Credit: Orissa by Dietmut Teijgeman-Hansen/ Flickr; licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Written by Satya P. Mohanty. Let me be blunt: there is an urgent need…
Colonialism British-Malayan late colonial relations November 6, 2019 0 Image Credit: woc3528 Malaya & British Borneo coin cufflinks by wowcoin/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Written by Alex Sutton. The history of British-Malayan relations offers an insight…
China The Xinjiang camps as a “Stanford Prison Experiment” October 24, 2018 1 Written by Magnus Fiskesjö. The Xinjiang camps represent a dramatic escalation of a longstanding Chinese policy to colonise and dominate Xinjiang, the "New Frontier" of the Qing…
Colonialism Moments of hope from the Section 377 ruling September 6, 2018 0 Written by Ibtisam Ahmed History has been made. In four different, but concurrent, opinions, the Supreme Court of India has repealed IPC Section 377, decriminalising…
Colonialism Resisting Communalism in the Face of the Empire June 19, 2018 0 Written by Sandeep Theophil. There was a time when Indians could boast of their culture of tolerance and unique experimentation as a secular state. However,…
Colonialism Lisu Bible Schools: A Means for Cultural Empowerment April 27, 2017 0 Written by Aminta Arrington. The classrooms are basic at the Liuku Bible Training Centre in China’s Yunnan Province. Beat-up desks piled high with Bibles and…
Asia “They Are Not Colonies but Jails”: Indian Indentured Labour in Colonial Mauritius, 1852-1900 January 18, 2016 0 By Sascha Auerbach, Department of History, The University of Nottingham To understand the rationale for the research conducted with the generous aid of IAPS seedcorn…