K. N. Panikkar shaped how modern India studies its past, questioning easy narratives and confronting the politics of memory. His books examined colonial power, culture, and communalism with unusual ...

Thomas Babington Macaulay, member of the Governor-General's council of India in 1835, famously said that all the literature of India and Arabia were not worth one single shelf of English literature.

India, Oct. 10 -- Think of colonial India, and the usual suspects emerge - Kolkata's mansions, Mumbai's forts, Chennai's boulevards, and Pondicherry's French Quarter. These cities were epicentres of ...