51 Loot

Archive Fever by Clare Wright and Yves Rees

Nov 14, 202534:34Society & Culture

Loot: to plunder or steal—an English word itself looted from the Hindi word lūṭ. To celebrate the launch of season 7, the inimitable Scottish-born historian William Dalrymple spills on the beans on the colonial loot that...

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