While the BJP is trying to invoke the trope of “Bangladeshi infiltrators”, the ground reality paints a different picture ...

Gazetteers are stand-alone resources on their own, used to find out where a place is and to get some basic information about it. Frequently, this is a very useful function for example, when you are ...

The District Gazetteers currently available date back to the early 1970s and cover 35 districts of the then Madhya Pradesh, ...

Wonderful is the effect of impudent & persevering lying. The British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers to repeat and model into every form lies about our being in anarchy, that the ...

district gazetteers and travellers reports. I’ve written on this at greater length in my book The Story of India and would love to do a film on it one day. I am a history buff, originally from ...

Leading one of the bloodiest battles against the British, he mobilised a local rebellion, using guerilla warfare and ambushes ...

The book, in fact, is an epitome of the information contained in the Imperial and Provincial Gazetteers, and in numberless other official publications.

THE Sindh government has declared Kutte Ji Qabar as a protected heritage under the relevant law. It is the second-highest peak of the Kirthar Mountain Range, 6,878 feet above the sea level, and is a ...

So, I could easily go back to the gazetteers of that time; I could easily go and see the railway routes of that time; I could see the maps of that time. And I treated it as if there was no Partition.

Valeria is a lecturer in Digital Humanities, specialising in the representation and reception of historical places. Prior to joining the DHI in Sheffield, she was based at The Alan Turing Institute, ...