Indian Historical Review, Ahead of Print. This article tries to understand the travels of Ippolito Desideri to Tibet in the context of the recent work by Alison Gopnik. The central claim of Alison Gopnik is that the western philosopher David Hume’s wor…
Indian Historical Review, Ahead of Print. The British East India Company (EIC) and other European traders entered Assam for trade. The region thrived on traditional places of exchange. These were haats (markets at the village and district level held at…
Indian Historical Review, Ahead of Print. The national revolutionaries of India while in detention in the first half of the 1930s came in contact with Marxist literature. Imbibed by the Marxist view of social change, they gave up ‘terrorism’ after comi…
Indian Historical Review, Ahead of Print. In 1921, the Bengal Legislative Council defeated the Woman Suffrage Bill. It created quite a stir because Bengal showed strong opposition to the Bill, in spite of its reputation for being receptive to progressi…
Indian Historical Review, Ahead of Print. This article brings to the forefront an underexamined aspect of French Indian history. Scholars have researched on various aspects of French imperialism in India, but one aspect which remains outside the purvie…
Indian Historical Review, Volume 49, Issue 1_suppl, Page S32-S55, June 2022. The British conquest of India was not akin to venividi vici dictum. Rather, it was a slow and gruelling expansion marked by resistance to it from cross-sections of individuals…
Indian Historical Review, Volume 49, Issue 1_suppl, Page S56-S68, June 2022. The scholars have paid scant attention to the role of the Bhil and the Mina tribes of southern Rajputana States of Mewar, Banswara and Partapgarh in the 1857 national war of i…
Indian Historical Review, Volume 49, Issue 1_suppl, Page S168-S192, June 2022. Netaji’s Secret Service ‘Indian National Army’ essentially revolutionary organisation. It is well known the leftist played a crucial role in Subhas Bose getting elected as t…
Indian Historical Review, Volume 49, Issue 1_suppl, Page S120-S138, June 2022. Dr B. R. Ambedkar noted that any freedom struggle or political change needs a base of cultural renaissance, reforms—both social and religious. Our retaliation against coloni…
Indian Historical Review, Volume 49, Issue 1_suppl, Page S9-S31, June 2022. This is an outline of the early rebellions against the East India Company that broke out in the region, comprised of the present-day Bangladesh, and Indian states of West Benga…