The 1911 coronation durbar celebrations in Malabar opened up public spaces for inter-caste mingling even as they deepened communal divisions The West Hill Maidan in Calicut was abuzz with activity on ...

In 1908 Lenin wrote about the arrest of Bal Gangadhar Tilak and described it as “the despicable sentence that the English jackals passed on the Indian democrat.” It must be remembered that Lenin’s ...