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How A Persian Newspaper from Calcutta Helped to Usher in Political Reform in Iran

Very little is known about Jalal al-din Kashani (1863-1926) before his Calcutta days.  He came from a...

How Indian Merchants and Sufi Saints Took Islam to Indonesia

While talking about India-Indonesia civilisational ties spreading over two millennia, Hindu and Buddhist influences are commonly mentioned...

The Calcutta Jews: Early Settlers

Calcutta and Bombay being the two foremost business hubs and metropolises of the East became two magnets...

Hariprabha Takeda: A Bengali Bride in Early 20th Century Japan

In 1907, Hariprabha Basu Mallick (1890-1972), a young Brahmo middle class woman from Dhaka, fell in love...

Judge Pal: A Japanese Hero

“….if not for anything else, we shall forever remain grateful to the country of Justice Pal” –...

Armenians in India

Hovhannes Joughayetsi started maintaining a detailed ledger from 19 December 1682. He was from a place called...