Imperialism

India and the Indian: Genes are the root of nationalism but don't determine our destiny, writes Praveen Swami

Animal impulses drive powerful nationalism, but their triumph is far from inevitable if humans are willing to carefully reflect on why we behave in the ways we do.

In Jallianwala Bagh, 1919, Kishwar Desai documents little-known stories of events before and after the massacre

In her book, Kishwar Desai focuses on those accounts of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre which did not find a place in the mainstream narrative

Imposition of Bangla and its eventful journey: Amid calls for separate Gorkhaland, Mamata should learn a bit of history

Oh, the places Bangla has gone! Offensive, defensive, and plain defiant, a language a quarter of a billion of us speak, has witnessed journeys along interesting, and ironical, bylanes.

Revolutionary road: A new, in-depth look at ideology of Bhagat Singh, Azad

In her book A Revolutionary History of Interwar India, Kama Maclean looks at the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army of Chandrashekhar Azad and Bhagat Singh