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HistoryChatter offers an informed take on our shared pasts. Designed and performed by Anirban Bandyopadhyay (Ph.D.), a trained historian and writer, the podcast offers a perspective on the p...
2024 marks the twenty year anniversary of Finding Forhotten Ciities, Prof. Nayanjot Lahiri's landmark book on the various events and persona...
When economic blockade encouraged the Portuguese to hold on to Goa rather than abandon it, India finally decided to use force. Yet its long...
The third episode of Konkan Uprising, our special series of the liberation of Goa, focuses on the economic blockade during the late 1950s. I...
Between 1946 and 1956, the Goa question had entered the international domain. India became independent but did not want to annex Goa by forc...
The people of Goa fell into a peculiar problem this month due to a recent change in Indian passport laws. Early last year, Prime Minister Mo...
🔎 Why 🧐 did #Nehru delay the liberation of #Goa from the Portuguese and make it a part of Bharat? A delay that was 15years after India got...
Coffee drinking on a large scale did not start in India before the early 20th century. Once it became popular as a leisure drink, many comme...
The G20, also known as the Group of Twenty, includes Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy,...
Sikkim followed a different trajectory from other former princely states. India virtually treated it as a foreign country, until early 1970s...
Jawaharlal Nehru was firmly against hereditary monarchs. But he made an exception in the case of Sikkim. He let Sikkim’s King stay on, until...
In the third episode on the incorporation of princely states within independent India, I take up a detailed case study of Hyderabad. It was...
Integration of various princely states to the newly independent state of India was carried out primarily by the States Department. It came i...
Given a choice, many native princes did not want to become a part of the independent Indian republic in 1947. Quite a few of them had even h...
🗓️15th of August 1947 On one side we see it as the day of India's Independence, on the other, the day when the country got partitioned. But...
The Government of India began to encourage the manufacture of a small car only by the 1970s. Sanjay Gandhi, Prime Minister’s son and an auto...
The first thirty years after independence were a bumpy ride for the private car dream. Automobile was considered integral to India’s self su...
A small car is not an unattainable aspiration for a middle-class family in India today. Forty years ago though, it was. Cars were considered...
A small car is not an unattainable aspiration for a middle-class family in India today. Forty years ago though, it was! Cars were considered...
HistoryChatter enters into contemporary history in this special episode. Anirban speaks to political scientists Prof. Sudha Pai and Dr. Sajj...
Once the British conquered India, they invested in learning Indian languages. Initially, they searched for one common language for the whole...
There was some controversy about whether it was right or fair to clothe the nude bronze figurine from Mohenjo Daro when it was recently adop...
Cricket commentary has just turned hundred years old. It has undergone great transformation as it grew from modest beginnings in Australia a...
India came close to testing an atomic bomb several times between 1974 and 1998. One of those times was in 1983 when Indira Gandhi withdrew a...
What happened to the Indian nuclear programme after the explosion? Did it settle into a regular rhythm of making bombs? Did it focus on prod...
India’s atomic energy research took a new turn by the 1960s. On the one hand, the atomic scientists had to seek out a new challenge as the o...
Atomic energy research in India made only modest progress in the early years. The cult of secrecy around it often provoked criticism. Indian...
Indian scientists and politicians carried out vigorous discussions on how to organize advanced scientific research on an industrial scale in...
Science and technology were considered as the face of modernity in independent India. A mastery and application of technology on an industri...
Atomic energy research in India started well before independence, but since independence, it has assumed an uncontested priority above all o...
In the tenth and final episode of the series Bombay Born, I talk to Amrit Gangar, who has researching and writing on films and Bombay for ov...
The Bombay Chronicle emerged as the voice of Bombay by the early twentieth century. Between the 1910s and 1950s, but especially since the 19...
Bombay was transformed from a prosperous port city to a major industrial metropolis largely through the expansion of the cotton textile indu...
Bombay did not have respectable hotels even during the 1850s. There were some taverns but they did not attract the respectable folks, who us...
One of the factors which gradually rescued Mumbai or Bombay from the effects of the crash of 1865 was the development of an improved communi...
Mumbai or Bombay was struck by the first major share market scandal in India in 1865. The American Civil War and the sudden cotton export bo...
Mumbai or Bombay was struck by the first major share market scandal in India in 1865. The American Civil War and the sudden cotton export bo...
Join us on this 10-part journey as we decode, the rise of Bombay In the third episode of Bombay Born, I revisit 1857 in Mumabai. Bombay larg...
The second episode of Bombay Born begins with the coming of the Railways and the demolition of the Ramparts. These two developments in the 1...
The history of Mumbai or Bombay took a major new turn once the British took over in the late seventeenth century. They not only envisaged a...
Mumbai or Bombay has long been a city of dreams, aspirations and untold wealth. Yet, even in 1850s, it was a narrow walled town. Bombay Born...
HistoryChatter in this episode looks into the early career of Shell Shock as a disorder. It was first discovered among British soldiers in F...
Boarding Schools in various hill stations in India had been around since the mid-nineteenth century. This episode of HistoryChatter looks in...
Public schools, which are in reality private boarding schools for the upper-class children, took off in the UK in the nineteenth century. On...
The princely states in India ceased to matter after India became independent in 1947. How did the princes cope with the sudden disappearance...
On International Museum Day, #HistoryChatter recalls the history of the movement. Even though the date was fixed by ICOM, and preservation o...
Foreign observers noticed some unique features of Indian English during the 1950s. India had recently become independent. There was a great...
LIC is now entering the share market. Experts predict that the development has the potential to significantly rewrite the history of infrast...
In April 1952, exactly seventy years ago from now, the foundation stone of All India Medical Institute was laid. It was to be the nucleus of...
Today is World Heritage Day! HistoryChatter in this episode revisits the relation between history and heritage. Following the work of David...
What kind of questions do you believe would be asked to an agony aunt in the 16th century? What were the major concerns of the people who wa...