The Indian Labourers Who Crossed an Ocean to Mauritius
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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The Ship That Took India’s First Girmit Workers to Fiji
In 1879 the sailing ship Leonidas left Calcutta with 498 people bound for Fiji. Their emigration passes are numbered 1 ...
The Ship That Brought India’s Workers to Trinidad in 1845
On 30 May 1845 a teak ship from Calcutta anchored off Port of Spain. A clerk in Trinidad numbered its ...
Why India Put Six Numbers After Every Address
India had two Bilaspurs, two Kotas and letters addressed in a dozen scripts. On 15 August 1972 the post office ...
Komagata Maru: The Ship That Was Turned Away Twice
In 1914 Gurdit Singh chartered a Japanese steamer to carry 376 Punjabis to Vancouver and test Canada's immigration rules in ...
Santhal Hul (1855): The Rebellion That Shook British Rule Before 1857
In 1855 two Santhal brothers, Sidhu and Kanhu Murmu, called ten thousand people to their village and declared an end ...
Vaikom Satyagraha (1924): The Fight for the Right to Walk on a Road
In March 1924 a Pulaya, an Ezhava and a Nair walked together toward a road beside the Vaikom temple that ...
Bombay Dock Explosion (1944): The Ship That Set an Entire City on Fire
On 14 April 1944 a cotton fire broke out on the SS Fort Stikine in Bombay's Victoria Dock. She was ...
India’s First General Election (1951–52): How a New Nation Learned to Vote
In 1951 India had 176 million adults to register, most of whom could not read, and more than 2.5 million ...
Age of Consent Act 1891: How Phulmoni Dasi’s Death Forced a Law
A ten-year-old’s death exposed a cruel gap in the law. The story of Phulmoni Dasi and the Age of Consent ...
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