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…
China Chinese nationalism and Western anxiety in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century February 11, 2020 0 Image credit: Imperial Gate [1901] by ralph repo/ flickr; licence CC BY 2.0. Written by Sascha Auerbach. In discussing Chinese nationalism, it is important to…
History Sport and colonialism in the Philippines January 13, 2020 0 Image Credit: village basketball by yumievriwan/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Written by Gerald R. Gems. On 15 February 1898, the USS Maine, an American battleship mysteriously exploded…
History Reconciliation or redress? Cultural diplomacy and the return of cultural property November 7, 2019 0 Image Credit: taman t (13)" by Biepmiep /Flickr; Licence:CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Written by Cynthia Scott. Following the end of the Second World War, a wave of decolonisation…
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…
Asia The Long Read: Gandhi’s racism October 2, 2019 1 Image Credit: ..gandhi. by Luke Cox/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC 2.0 Written by Faisal Devji. If the memory of Mahatma Gandhi lives on today, then it…
Asia Replaying history, or why the Philippines should participate in the Commonwealth Games February 20, 2019 0 Written by Lou Antolihao. In what appeared to be the most controversial event in the recent 2018 Commonwealth Games, video replays confirmed England sprinter Zharnel…
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…
