Belt and Road Initiative The Invention of the Silk Road – how to legitimise the BRI with a historical myth February 1, 2019 1 Christian Mueller In September 2013, the announcement of a new “Silk Road” programme for infrastructure development by the President of the People’s Republic of China,…
Commonwealth Memorialising the ‘world’ in World War I November 9, 2018 0 Written by Ibtisam Ahmed. The war to end all wars, as it is still ironically referred to, remains a key part of global history. Classrooms…
Bangladesh Personal Take: Fictionalizing History, History as Fiction October 15, 2018 0 Written by Nadeem Zaman As a Bangladeshi I grew up on a steady diet of stories of the Bangladesh Liberation War 1971. As a Bangladeshi…
India Nuclear weapons during India-Pakistan Crises: A Historical Reader August 30, 2018 0 Written by Rizwan Zeb. Since the 1980s, nuclear weapons have figured prominently in Indo-Pakistan conflicts. Even before the overt nuclearization of both countries in 1998,…
History “Behind every Fascism”: Is Žižek’s appropriation of Walter Benjamin’s thesis applicable in India? August 29, 2018 3 Written by Mriganka Mukhopadhyay. Slavoj Žižek, one of the most significant philosophers of present times, often quotes Walter Benjamin to explain the growing right-wing tendencies…
Asia Imperial Retirement Marks the End of an Era for Japan August 28, 2018 0 Written by Anne-Léonore Dardenne. Emperor Akihito expressed his sorrow over the war dead and ‘deep remorse’ for Japan’s role for the last time publicly on…
Nuclear Weapons Pakistan: A Reluctant Nuclear State, 20 Years After? June 28, 2018 0 Written by Rizwan Zeb. Twenty years ago, on May 28, Pakistan conducted its first nuclear tests in response to Indian nuclear tests on May 11…
Asia-Pacific A Pacific Precedent: The Institute of Pacific Relations in the Emergence of Asia-Pacific Studies June 27, 2018 1 Written by Sean Phillips. To ask precisely where and what encompasses the Asia-Pacific is a central question of political geography. The vocabulary of the discipline…
Uncategorized Hindu-Muslim conflict in India: A “pre-colonial” view May 29, 2018 2 Written by Ajay Verghese. In 1679, the Mughal ruler Aurangzeb reinstituted the hated jizyah (tax on non-Muslims) in his empire. Saqi Mustad Khan, employed in…
Indo-British Birsa Munda and his Ulgulaan (rebellion) April 18, 2018 0 Written by Rahul Ranjan. The engulfing potential of colonialism cannot be underplayed, even if we believe to have entered a globalised world, where claims about…
