2+ week, 6+ day ago   (653+ words) What motivated you to frame Chand Bibi’s story within a longer continuum of Muslim women exercising political, economic, military, and cultural sovereignty? How does her life challenge the traditional views on female power in early modern South Asia? Her life…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (792+ words) Six years of global warfare, millions of lives lost and entire cities reduced to rubble -- all came to an end in a single, 23-minute ceremony. On the morning of September 2, 1945, the battleship USS Missouri lay anchored in Tokyo Bay. There…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (215+ words) After zamindars, the most significant patrons of terracotta temples were merchants. The surge in textile exports and the monetization of the economy under the Mughals in the 17th and 18th centuries enabled merchants to become wealthy and to replicate the temple sponsorship…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (285+ words) Compared to Punjab, Bengal, Bihar, the North-West Frontier Province, the Central Provinces, and the United Provinces, Sindh initially remained relatively calm. Large-scale violence did not erupt there until early 1948. Their Sindh was eventually lost to many Hindus and Sikhs, despite…...

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6+ day, 12+ hour ago   (319+ words) You may recall Uttar Pradesh (UP) chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s struggle to clear the way for the construction of the temple complex and beautification of Ayodhya city. Many houses had to be demolished. Some structures were centuries old and included…...