K. N. Panikkar shaped how modern India studies its past, questioning easy narratives and confronting the politics of memory. His books examined colonial power, culture, and communalism with unusual ...
India, Oct. 10 -- Think of colonial India, and the usual suspects emerge - Kolkata's mansions, Mumbai's forts, Chennai's boulevards, and Pondicherry's French Quarter. These cities were epicentres of ...
Like many scholars rooted in Marxist historiography, K. N. Panikkar often pointed to the link between the rise of ...
Itinerary of François Pyrard de Laval includes a visit to "Inde." On a chilly afternoon in February 1611, the town of Laval, a prosperous mercantile conurbation on the River Mayenne in northwest ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio — It’s strangely unsettling to peer into the razor-sharp, beautifully toned photographs of 19th-century English colonial gentry, servants, and native royals in India, now on view at ...
When British traders landed on India’s shores in the 1600s, they arrived in search of spices and silk but stayed for centuries – leaving behind a legacy that would shape the nation long after their ...
KOZHIKODE: Kandiyoor Narayana Panikkar, the Marxist historian who firmly stood up against every attempt to communalise the discipline and upheld the sanctity of empirical facts, died in ...