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Shefali Chandan

Shefali Chandan is a contributing editor at Swarajya

The Colonial Eye: When Britain’s Middle Class Came To India To Find Opportunity, Status, And Love

5yr Culture
Curry and Rice: The Ingredients of Social Life at “Our” Station in India by Captain G F Atkinson (1860) (Public domain)

The Colonial Eye: Mark Twain Wrote What He Saw In India – Beyond The Oriental Banality

5yr Culture
Benares. <i>Following the Equator</i> (1897), Mark Twain

The Delhi Durbar Of 1903, In The Colonial Eye

5yr Culture
Illustration: Veterans of the Mutiny (1857) on the Great Day, Delhi, 1903; Mortimer Menpes

How Churchill’s Denial Of The Atlantic Charter Rewards To India Pitted Him Against Roosevelt

5yr Blogs
Franklin D Roosevelt and Winston Churchill seated on the quarterdeck of HMS Prince of Wales following a Sunday service during the Atlantic Conference, 10 August 1941. (Wikimedia Commons)

The Colonial Eye: How The Pretentious Indian “Baboo” Came To Be Satirised

6yr Culture
“The Shallabalah Maharajah or the Confessions of an Indian Prince” (<i>Punch</i>, or <i>The London Charivari</i>, January 14, 1888)

The Colonial Eye: As The British Saw And Described Indians

6yr Culture
A picture portraying the idea that natives of India make excellent servants ... reproductions from specially prepared hand-coloured photographs with descriptive letterpress” by F M Coleman, 1897.&nbsp;

American GI Life In India During Second World War

6yr World
Crowd gathers around a sidewalk performer at a bus stop while GIs take temporary advantage of an overhead view from the steps of a camp bus.

When Indian Soldiers Helped Turn The Tide In Favour Of The Allies In World War-II

6yr World
The “China-Burma-India theatre” refers to the United States military’s operations in China, parts of south-east Asia, Burma and eastern India.

The History Of Discriminatory Immigration Laws That Kept Indians Out Of The US For 40 Years

6yr World
Protesters hold signs during a demonstration against the immigration ban that was imposed by US President Donald Trump at Los Angeles International Airport on 29 January 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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