#colonialindia — Public Fediverse posts

📸✏️ Ah yes, the tale of Emily Eden, an Englishwoman who doodled her way through colonial India, capturing the exotic allure of the empire before Instagram filters were a thing. Because clearly, the world needed more British eyes telling us what India looked like. 🙄🖼️
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2drrv6q54o #EmilyEden #ColonialIndia #Doodles #ArtHistory #BritishEmpire #VisualCulture #HackerNews #ngated

📸✏️ Ah yes, the tale of Emily Eden, an Englishwoman who doodled her way through colonial India, capturing the exotic allure of the empire before Instagram filters were a thing. Because clearly, the world needed more British eyes telling us what India looked like. 🙄🖼️
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2drrv6q54o #EmilyEden #ColonialIndia #Doodles #ArtHistory #BritishEmpire #VisualCulture #HackerNews #ngated

The Corporate Origins of #Colonialism: The #EastIndiaCompany

#LettersAndPolitics welcomes #WilliamDalrymple, author of #TheAnarchy: The East India Company, #CorporateViolence, and the Pillage of an Empire

https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-may-7-2025/

#India #ColonialIndia #BritishEmpire #colonialViolence #charteredCompanies #books @histodons @bookstodon

The Corporate Origins of #Colonialism: The #EastIndiaCompany

#LettersAndPolitics welcomes #WilliamDalrymple, author of #TheAnarchy: The East India Company, #CorporateViolence, and the Pillage of an Empire

https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-may-7-2025/

#India #ColonialIndia #BritishEmpire #colonialViolence #charteredCompanies #books @histodons @bookstodon

The Corporate Origins of #Colonialism: The #EastIndiaCompany

#LettersAndPolitics welcomes #WilliamDalrymple, author of #TheAnarchy: The East India Company, #CorporateViolence, and the Pillage of an Empire

https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-may-7-2025/

#India #ColonialIndia #BritishEmpire #colonialViolence #charteredCompanies #books @histodons @bookstodon

The Corporate Origins of #Colonialism: The #EastIndiaCompany

#LettersAndPolitics welcomes #WilliamDalrymple, author of #TheAnarchy: The East India Company, #CorporateViolence, and the Pillage of an Empire

https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-may-7-2025/

#India #ColonialIndia #BritishEmpire #colonialViolence #charteredCompanies #books @histodons @bookstodon

The IHC and ICS are co-organising a talk by John Bosco Lourdusamy (IIT Madras) on the the entanglement of the past and present in the tea gardens of colonial Southern India with regard to the condition of labour.

📅 7 May at 11am.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/machines-tea-gardens/

@histodons
@histodon

#Histodons #ColonialHistory #India #Tea #Plantations #HistoryOfLabour #ColonialIndia #LabourExploitation #HistoryOfTechnology #Plantations #HistóriaColonial #ÍndiaColonial #Plantações #HistóriaDoTrabalho #Chá

The IHC and ICS are co-organising a talk by John Bosco Lourdusamy (IIT Madras) on the the entanglement of the past and present in the tea gardens of colonial Southern India with regard to the condition of labour.

📅 7 May at 11am.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/machines-tea-gardens/

@histodons
@histodon

#Histodons #ColonialHistory #India #Tea #Plantations #HistoryOfLabour #ColonialIndia #LabourExploitation #HistoryOfTechnology #Plantations #HistóriaColonial #ÍndiaColonial #Plantações #HistóriaDoTrabalho #Chá

review of the book with a reply from the author of the book:
https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/1461

#ColonialIndia #Raj #BritishEmpire #India #Britain