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1200+ historic ‘Survey of India’ maps – searchable, digitised, and free to access.

The Survey of India was established in 1767 - just a decade after the Battle of Plassey (1757), which reshaped political power in the subcontinent. In other words, mapping came on the heels of conquest, as British authorities sought to document and manage the land they now...

Medhavi Gandhi -

Open Knowledge Fellowship (supported by Wikimedia UK)

Colonial Photographs of Kerala: Unnamed People and Forgotten Lives in the Archive

Meera Pattaruveettil -

Looking at Colonial Photographs : Memory, Posture, & Place

Meera Pattaruveettil -

When the Queen Becomes Colonial Mother: Nationhood and Empire under Victoria Regina

Chirantan Banik -

Mumbai’s Bandstands: Where Music, Culture and Community Converged

Nikita Infantcia Fernandes -

Digital Rasa: Can Ancient Indian Aesthetic Theory Guide Our Engagement with Manuscripts and Photographs online?

Andy Corrigan -

Decoding the Visual Identity and Design of Young India Record Label

Nikita Infantcia Fernandes -

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Time to Care - Women's Work / Worth

Produced with Laws of Social Reproduction research team at King's College London, with support from the European Research Council.