A type of large, manually operated ceiling-fan used historically in the Indian subcontinent, the punkah comprised a suspended wooden beam, slab or frame with a hanging panel of fabric that was swung ...

Some colonial-era photographs did little, for instance, to conceal the paternalistic attitudes underpinning their production ...

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 ...

Still from “Panorama of Calcutta” (1899), the earliest extant film of India (screenshot via YouTube) The British Film Institute (BFI) has digitized and uploaded a major trove of rarely seen films from ...