False and Dangerous - Dr Jon Wilson, lecturer in British imperial & South Asian history at King's College London, writes about how a TV history by Niall Ferguson is an attempt to justify the new imperial order.

Late Victorian Holocausts - a book by Mike Davis, professor of history at the Universtiy of California, on the millions of deaths caused in India by the imposition of free-market economics on the colonial world.

Cotton – a history

The Argumentative Indian – a  review of Amartya Sen's book on India's cultural and political history.

The real reasons for hunger - leading Indian ecological activist, Vandana Shiva, disagrees with Amartya Sen's analysis of global hunger and argues that famine has returned to democratic India.

Indian arts and crafts

Craft Revival Trust- a comprehensive site on crafts across India and other South Asian countries.