October 11, 2026/
In September 1834, thirty-six people pressed their thumbs to a Bengali contract in Calcutta and sailed for a sugar estate...
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October 11, 2026/
Indian ayahs nursed British children across the oceans, and some were dismissed the day the ship docked. A house in...
October 11, 2026/
In 1879 the sailing ship Leonidas left Calcutta with 498 people bound for Fiji. Their emigration passes are numbered 1...
October 11, 2026/
In October 1840, twenty-five sailors from a Calcutta ship were carried aboard a hospital hulk at Greenwich, many with scurvy....
October 11, 2026/
On 30 May 1845 a teak ship from Calcutta anchored off Port of Spain. A clerk in Trinidad numbered its...
October 11, 2026/
A lunchbox in Mumbai carries no name and no address, only a few painted letters and numbers. For more than...
October 11, 2026/
In 1988 the government let ordinary shopkeepers sell long-distance calls, and a small meter with a paper receipt made it...
October 11, 2026/
In the 1920s a young man from a village near Udupi was grinding idli batter in a Madras eating house....
October 11, 2026/
Every Indian banknote is signed by the Governor of the Reserve Bank, except one. The one-rupee note says Government of...
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