An elephant shunts a train on the Bengal-Nagpur line.
This week in the Internet:
Indian Railways – The British Legacy
Archives and Origins: The Material and Vernacular Cultures of Photography in India
Bengali New Year: how Akbar invented the modern Bengali calendar
AUDIO INTERVIEW: Peter Gottschalk — Religion, Science, and Empire: Classifying Hinduism and Islam in British India
VIDEO: Pakistani servants form a union
I, citizen of Waziristan, hereby reject the Social Agreement
Western Muslims: Belonging to the Narrative
Madrassah Education in Pre-Colonial and -Colonial South Asia
Muhammad Iqbal: Writer Against Colonialism
This week at Tanqeed:
Understanding the Politics of Saudi Sectarianism by Junaid S Ahmad. “The central – and very simple – factor that caused the royal despots of the Gulf to unleash political and sectarian warfare to punish Iran was the Islamic revolution’s staunchly anti-monarchical orientation.”
