Murali Ranganathan on the first Urdu guidebook of Bombay, published the same year (1875) as James Maclean's far-more-comprehensive tome. thewire.in/history/traver…

Coming tomorrow: Nico Slate CMU History joins me for a discussion of his excellent new biography of Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay -- on our 15th podcast episode of Past Imperfect. Scroll.in

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay remains a controversial figure in the Indian women's movement - a feminist who rejected the label feminism, someone whose. Listen to Nico Slate on Kamaladevi and feminism, both Indian and global: scroll.in/article/107216…

Grant Road theatrics: In Oct 1865, a Parsi troupe performs a song on Jagannath Shankarsheth (recently deceased) and a comedy likely on the collapse of "share mania" in Bombay after the American Civil War.

While in Ahmedabad, I was privileged to spend lots of time with Makrand Mehta, who passed away last week, and his wife Shirin. I still rely on my notes of our conversations in my own historical work. scroll.in/article/107295…

Looking forward to seeing Aparajith Ramnath's new biography of M. Visvesvaraya!: scroll.in/article/107310…