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Bengal and the coming of Islam: A story of soil and spirit (opens the original)
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For centuries, the story of how Islam came to Bengal has often been reduced to simplistic explanations. Some portray it as the consequence of military conquest and forced conversion, while others attribute it entirely to the peaceful activities of Sufi saints. The historical reality is far more complex. Islamisation in Bengal was not a single event but a gradual process that unfolded over centuries and varied considerably across regions. It was shaped by political change, trade, agriculture, mig
The enduring allure of vintage photographs (opens the original)
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It all started quite by accident. In 1981, while visiting the renowned Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, USA, where the Festival of India was being held, I came across some remarkable vintage photographs of British India and the Princely States on display. As I stood transfixed in front of a large, attractive photograph of an Indian potentate of yore, a gorgeously attired old Maharajah who stared balefully at the camera, a thought struck me. Would it be possible to locate, retrieve, collec
The enduring legacy of the 2nd Bangladesh Liberation War Course (opens the original)
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The War of Liberation comes but once in the history of a nation. Our beloved motherland, Bangladesh, also bathed in the blood of millions of martyrs in its struggle for freedom from the Pakistani oppressors. On 25 March 1971, when the marauding Pakistan Army suddenly swooped upon the innocent and unarmed people of the country under the cover of darkness, especially at key locations in Dhaka city—Dhaka University, the Rajarbagh Police Lines, and the EPR Headquarters at Peelkhana—killing thousands
What a 17th-century merchant's autobiography reveals about Mughal governance (opens the original)
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In an age in which the subcontinent seems increasingly obsessed with religious identity and privilege, the voice of a merchant from 1641 offers a bracing reminder that things were not always so. Banarasidas, a Shrimal Jain who lived from 1586 to 1643, could not have known that his modest poetic autobiography would one day serve as a crucial corrective to some of the most persistent myths about the Mughal Empire, which once spanned what are today India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Written in Braj Bh
Two visions of Sulh-i Kul: Akbar and Dara Shukoh (opens the original)
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In contemporary South Asia, where communal tensions are often projected backwards onto history, there is an urgent need to recover the pluralistic ideals that once animated the region's medieval past. The Mughal period is usually misrepresented in popular discourse as an era of unrelenting religious strife, conflict, and discrimination against non-Muslims. Such caricatures not only distort historical reality but also obscure the sophisticated intellectual and political traditions that sustained
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