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Siddis are descendants of Africans who were mostly trafficked to India as slaves by the Arabs, and later the Portuguese. Much of the Arab slave trade happened from Abyssinia, today’s Ethiopia and Eritrea, hence they were earlier called Habshi, derived from Arabic for Abyssinia (al-Habash). However, the Siddis of Karnataka are descendants from Bantu-speaking people of the Swahili coast.

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छत्तीसगढ़ में जल सत्याग्रह

Histories People

डॉ. अनिल कुमार भतपहरी

पंथी गीत

Practices and Rituals People

Eeshita Kapadiya

The Artefacts of a Dalapathi: A Photo Narrative

Practices and Rituals People

Dr Ilse Köhler-Rollefson

Camel Cultures of India

Knowledge Traditions People Natural Environment

Dr Ajay S. Sekher

Arattupuzha Velayudha Panicker: Morning Star of the Kerala Renaissance

Histories People

Dr Ajay S. Sekher

Shaping a Modern Kerala: Sahodaran’s Poetry of Fraternity, Liberty and Equality

Histories People

Ar. Binita Pandya

City and Plasticity

Histories People Built Spaces

Samik Dasgupta

Colonial Modernism and Actor Training in the Late Nineteenth-Century Bengali Stage

Performing Arts People

Anusha Sundar

Life in the Basti: Understanding Multiple Marginalisations in Sapera Narratives

Performing Arts People

Lakshmi Swaminathan

Vernacular Built Forms in Kangra Valley and their Relationship to Livelihoods

People Built Spaces

Riddhi Pandey (compiler)

Some Legends and Folk Stories of the Baiga People of Central India

Literature and Languages People

Gauri Bharat

Bulu Imam: A Lifetime of Working with Adivasi Art and the Environment

Visual and Material Arts People

Kanak Rajadhyaksha

Kapdagondas: Embroidery and Work for Dongariya Kondh Women

Visual and Material Arts People

Abhimanyu Acharya

हिंदी उपन्यास का विकास

Literature and Languages People

Manasa Gowda & Ram Raj D

Channapatna Toys and the Legends of Srirangapatna

Histories People

Manasa Gowda & Ram Raj D

Channapatna Toys: Non-Toxic, Chemical-free and Safe for Children

Visual and Material Arts Histories People

Prateeksha Tiwari

A Bhavaiyya's Tale

Performing Arts People

Yusra Hasan

The Bhishtis of Shahjahanabad: Negotiating Oblivion

Histories People

Eeshita Kapadiya

The Dalapathi System—Individual and the Community

Histories Institutions People

Akhil P. Veetil

Culture, Space and Art in Nirmal Verma’s Writings

Literature and Languages People

Raja Muzaffar Bhat and Parshati Dutta

The Lahore–Kashmir Mughal Imperial Road: Traversing a Terrain of Conflict

Histories People

Vaishnavi Mahurkar

Dalit Women and the Ambedkarite Movement

Literature and Languages People

Vaishnavi Mahurkar

Urmila Pawar's Memoirs: Weaving a Tale of Life on the Margins

Literature and Languages People

Anju Bala

The Artistic Journey of Sardari Lal Parasher

Visual and Material Arts People

Priya Malik

Khoriya: A Jat Haryanvi Marriage Ritual of Subversion

Practices and Rituals People

Sasikumar Vasudevan

Aravindan – A Scriptless Creative Film Director

Visual and Material Arts People

Sunny Joseph

Mirrors of Love: Working with Aravindan

Visual and Material Arts People

K.N. Shaji

A Liberal Left Humanist: The Politics of John Abraham

Visual and Material Arts People

C.S. Venkiteswaran

The Many Legacies of John Abraham

Visual and Material Arts People

V.K. Cherian

John Abraham and the Socio-Political Contexts of New Cinema in Kerala

Visual and Material Arts People

Barnamala Roy

From the Ponds to the Markets: Aquarium Fish Traders and Hobbyists

Practices and Rituals People Natural Environment

Dr. Supratim Chowdhury & Barnamala Roy

Status of Women in Ornamental Fish Farming

People Natural Environment

Matthieu Salpeteur

Adapting to Changing Landscapes: Rabari Migration Strategies across Generations

Urmimala Sarkar Munsi

Boner and Shankar: A Cross-cultural Creative Dialogue Through Art and Dance

Visual and Material Arts Performing Arts People

Geetha G.

The Filmography of K.G. George

Visual and Material Arts People

Vishal Pratap Singh Deo

The Oral Historian from Borunda: Komal Kothari

Institutions People

Dr Ajay S. Sekher

When the Curtain Falls: Socio-cultural Facets of K.G. George’s Filmic Narratives

Visual and Material Arts People

Rasmi Binoy

Gendered Spaces in Post-Emergency Kerala: Frames of K.G. George

Visual and Material Arts People

Amol Saghar

History of the Pallavan Era: Pioneering Studies of C. Minakshi

Sandeep Joshi

Kalamkari of Gujarat: Mata ni Pachhedi

Knowledge Traditions Visual and Material Arts Practices and Rituals Histories People

Sandeep Joshi

Baroda Patronage: Sayajirao Gaekwad III as Patron of Art

Visual and Material Arts Literature and Languages Histories Institutions People

Sandhya Bordewekar Gajjar

The Magic of Babo Pithoro: Traditional Painting in Contemporary Times

Visual and Material Arts Practices and Rituals People

Saaz Aggarwal

Family Structures and Lifestyle Patterns of Sindhworkis

Histories People

Tulsi Mohinani

My Ordinary Life: Seventy Years and Five Continents

Histories People

Monica Mahtani Bhojwani

Seclusion in Glamorous Locales: The Life of a Sindhworki Wife

Histories People

Chhaya Goswami

Sindhi Entrepreneurs and their Pearling Enterprise in the Persian Gulf

Histories People

Saaz Aggarwal

Bhai Pratap: Tribute to a Forgotten Hero

Histories People

M.L. Bhatia

Khwaja Khizr and River Cult in Medieval Sindh

Histories People

A.B. Advani, MA LLB

The Early British Traders in Sindh

Histories People

Aneesha Ani Benedict

Small-scale Fisheries of Major Fishing Villages on Thiruvananthapuram Coast

People Natural Environment

Laura Ongaro

Visual and Material Arts Histories Institutions People Built Spaces

Monisha Ahmed

Visual and Material Arts Histories People

Brocades of Varanasi: External Links

Visual and Material Arts People

Titas De Sarkar

Satyajit Ray: A Descriptive Filmography

Visual and Material Arts People

Sanjoy Mukhopadhyay

রুপান্তরের রহস্যঃ অপু ও সিদ্ধার্থ/ Apu and Siddharth: Mystery of Transformation

Visual and Material Arts People

Moinak Biswas

পথের পাঁচালী’র দেশ / The World of Pather Panchali

Visual and Material Arts People

Lakshmi Viswanathan

A Quartet Who Made History

Performing Arts People

Noorjehan Bilgrami

Ajrak: The Sacred Cloth of Sindh

Knowledge Traditions Visual and Material Arts Histories People

Radha Vallabh Tripathi

Shrinivas Rath (1933–2014)

Literature and Languages Institutions People

Nandini Ramani

Lessons with Bala

Performing Arts People

N. Jayavanth Rao

The Agra Gharana of Hindustani Music

Performing Arts People

Yousuf Saeed

Select Bibliography: Sufi Literature in South Asia

Knowledge Traditions Practices and Rituals Histories Institutions People

Rohan Shivkumar

Charles Correa: Imagining the City and the Home for Modern India

People Built Spaces

Prof Sharada Srinivasan

The Nataraja bronze and Coomaraswamy's legacy

People Built Spaces

Online Resources

People Built Spaces

Anurag Mazumdar

Moving Beyond Metropolis

People Built Spaces

Haradas Appacha's contributions to Kodagu literature

Performing Arts Literature and Languages People

Literary contributions of Haradas Appacha

Literature and Languages People

Haradas Appacha and Kodagu's nationalism

Literature and Languages People

Sahapedia Frames

Because of African genes, Siddi youngsters naturally gifted with good stamina, athletic physique, body strength and power. Anita is a state-level athlete from Hunashettikoppa village, in Haveri district, Karnataka, and has won numerous medals in the 500-, 800- and 1000-meter middle-distance running.

Indrajit Khambe

Breaking the Race Barrier: Sports Culture among the Siddis

Pondicherry is the capital of Francophone culture in India. In the Treaty of Cession, the French and Indian governments agreed on preserving the unique French culture of Pondicherry by retaining some traditions. Franco-Pondicherrians refer themselves as Creoles, a population mostly born to French and Tamil parents or their descendants.

G. Pattabiraman

In Memory of France: Indo-French Culture of Pondicherry

Kalbeliyas are pioneers in music and playing music to ‘charm’ snakes has always been part of their culture. Kalbeliyas believe in kinship with snakes and have immense knowledge about the reptile. They find their hideouts easily and catch them with their bare hands.

Shatabdi Chakrabarti

Cobra Catchers: Kalbeliya Nomads of Rajasthan

Sistan and Balochistan once formed the border of Achaemenid Persia and Mauryan India and now mark the border between Iran and Pakistan. In a landscape of mud volcanoes and vast deserts, the Baloch people live a tough life in a deeply conservative society and harsh environment, with little connection to the outside world.

Sarah Jabbari

Sistan and Balochistan Province: On the Fringe of Empires

Library Artifacts

Ministry of Textiles, Government of India

Parākāshthā

मध्य प्रदेश आदिवासी लोक कला प्रकाशन

भिम्मा, Bhimma

Chaumasa

पांडवानी

Chaumasa

महाभारत की वाचिक परंपरा का लोकस्वरूप 'पांडवानी'

Chaumasa

साधना और संघर्ष: परिवर्तन ही श्रेयष्कर है

Chaumasa

साधना और संघर्ष: तीजन बाई से एक भेंट