Statecraft and art have a long and storied history, down to the very foundations of the modern state. The Swiss art historian Jacob Burckhardt famously showed in The State as a Work of Art that the ...
When India gained independence in 1947, it was not simply a political liberation but also a historical turning point. After almost two hundred years of British rule, the British presence in India ...
Lorraine Boissoneault | Author, Body Weather: Notes on Chronic Illness in the Anthropocene For more than 200 years, Britain had asserted its iron will over India. From the East India Company levying ...