The history hut

06/11/2021

https://theprint.in/pageturner/excerpt/how-mughal-india-celebrated-diwali-from-akash-diya-to-red-fort/761240/?amp

In ‘Shahjahanabad’, Rana Safvi writes about how the ‘Rang Mahal’ in Delhi’s Red Fort was lit up to celebrate Diwali.

20/10/2021

https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/nation/top-honour-for-indian-environmental-historian-326589

The American Historical Association has announced the winners for 2021. Vice Chancellor and Professor of History and Environmental Studies, Krea University, Mahesh Rangarajan (former HoD, Ashoka University), has been made the 'Honorary Foreign Member' of the society for exhaustive work in his academ

10/08/2021

the "good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies"
Marc Bloch

29/07/2021

The nobodies: nobody's children, owners of nothing. The nobodies: the no ones, the nobodied, running like rabbits, dying through life, screwed every which way.
Who are not, but could be.
Who don't speak languages, but dialects.
Who don't have religions, but superstitions.
Who don't create art, but handicrafts.
Who don't have culture, but folklore.
Who are not human beings, but human resources.
Who do not have faces, but arms.
Who do not have names, but numbers.
Who do not appear in the history of the world, but in the
police blotter of the local paper.
The nobodies, who are not worth the bullet that kills them.

Eduardo Galeano, "The Nobodies"