The indefatigable traveller prided himself on his singular frugality, adaptability to every circumstance and cheerful willingness to rough it when necessary.

Mughal India’s queens were a formidable force for impoverished and isolated England

The marriage of an Englishman and an Indian woman was not new, even for those early days of English travel to India.

This new land several thousand miles from the tiny hamlet of his birth must have been quite the sensory experience for Stephens

Positioning themselves in the middle path between the local sovereignty and the global world, South Indians' roles rose to political and economic advisers.

The poems of this era ushered in a more concrete portrayal of architectural decay - to articulate the memory of 1857 as a cultural trauma.