To the East India Company and the British Raj that followed it, mapping was an obsession. The empires that came before them, such as the Mughal and the Marathas, did not engage in cartography in quite the same way. The British needed to study the topography of what was to them very foreign territory in […]
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Dust devils spiral and mango trees creak with the weight of history as boys run about the sun-seared grounds. It is late afternoon at St Thomas Mount and outside the 1830-built St Thomas Garrison Church, you can hear the thump of cricket ball on bat. Not long ago, on these grounds adjoining the Mohite stadium […]
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Situated on a hillock with the Arabian Sea on one side and the Chaliyar river on the other, this was the only fort in Kerala built entirely by Tipu Sultan Situated on a hillock with the Arabian Sea on one side and the Chaliyar river on the other, this was the only fort in Kerala […]
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Giles Tillotson, curator of Tipu Sultan: Image & Distance, an exhibition in New Delhi on the visual history of the Anglo-Mysore Wars, explores the public narrative surrounding these events over two centuries Giles Tillotson, curator of Tipu Sultan: Image & Distance, an exhibition in New Delhi on the visual history of the Anglo-Mysore Wars, explores […]
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An exhibition on the erstwhile Mysuru ruler, through the lens of the East India Company’s painters An exhibition on the erstwhile Mysuru ruler, through the lens of the East India Company’s painters Dramatic lighting and black walls set the mood for the viewing of historical paintings dedicated to Tipu Sultan, the enfant terrible of British […]
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