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Gifford Shaft was the deepest shaft in KGF and the second deepest in the world with workers having to work at depths of over three kilometres. Now, it lies abandoned and the famous equipment is rusting away. Since the court proceedings regarding the mines are still pending, there is constant security around the premises of Gifford Shaft (Courtesy: PeeVee)

Basav Biradar and PeeVee

In Search of Gold

Histories, People, Built Spaces

Kalighat Paintings That Ruled the Hearts of Calcuttans for a Century Image Gallery

Kalighat Paintings: How a Rural Performance Art Shaped India’s Cultural LandscapeArticle

The Rise and Fall of Kalighat PaintingsOverview

Kolkata’s Kalighat PaintingsModule

Jodhpur: City at the Desert FrontierModule

Hindustani Khayal Music: A Sociocultural HistoryArticle

In Conversation with Subhendu Dasgupta on Bengal's Anti-colonial Cartooning: ‘Each Cartoon was a Political Opinion’Interview

Representation of Women in Cartoons from Colonial Bengal (1872–1947)Article

A Historical Enquiry Into the Evolution of Caricaturing in Colonial Bengal (1872–1947)Overview

Political Caricature in Colonial Bengal (1872–1947)Module

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Sharmistha Chaudhuri

Kolkata’s Kalighat Paintings

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Aditya Dhanapal

Jodhpur: City at the Desert Frontier

Histories Built Spaces

Srimati Ghosal

Political Caricature in Colonial Bengal (1872–1947)

Visual and Material Arts Histories

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Sharmistha Chaudhuri

Kalighat Paintings That Ruled the Hearts of Calcuttans for a Century

Basav Biradar and PeeVee

In Search of Gold

Ayan Ghosh

Millennium City: The Kingdom of Anuradhapura

Sarah Jabbari

In memory of Greater Iran: Zoroastrians of Navsari

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Sharmistha Chaudhuri

Kalighat Paintings: How a Rural Performance Art Shaped India’s Cultural Landscape

Visual and Material Arts Histories

Aditi Deo

Hindustani Khayal Music: A Sociocultural History

Performing Arts Histories

Srimati Ghosal

Representation of Women in Cartoons from Colonial Bengal (1872–1947)

Visual and Material Arts Histories

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Parsis first arrived in Gujarat between the eighth and tenth centuries. Navsari in Gujarat was one of the earliest Parsi settlements in India, and became a major centre of the Parsi priesthood.

Sarah Jabbari

In memory of Greater Iran: Zoroastrians of Navsari

An archaic relic in the age of modern modes of transportation, hand-pulled rickshaws have phased away from the countries where they originated, like Japan and China, but continue to exist in India. In Kolkata, they are still used as a mode of transport (Courtesy: Soumya Shankar Ghosal)

Soumya Shankar Ghosal

Hundred years of sweat, toil and public service : Handpulled rickshaws of Kolkata

Tamil inscription at Sadarmangala, near International Tech Park in Whitefield, installed in 1346 CE, during the early reign of the Vijayanagara dynasty. It is a record of a land grant made to Gangadhara, a resident of Senjiagaram (Courtesy: Perumal Venkatesan)

Perumal Venkatesan

Stonehunters: The Epigraphic Quest for Bengaluru

The Jhelum riverbank in Downtown Srinagar is like a living gallery of traditional Kashmiri residential architecture (Courtesy: Parshati Dutta)

Parshati Dutta

Eternal Witness of Kashmir Valley: Tracing the Jhelum River

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Chaumasa

पंडवानी और कीचक वध प्रसंग

निरंजन महावर

निरंजन महावर

नवल शुक्ल

Vasudeva, Part II

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