@PartitionGroupScot @PartitionEdScot

Developing Scotland's first framework of teaching of the partition of 1947. In collaboration with partners @partitiongroup @gceducationscot #Decolonise blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/gc/globalcitiz… Glasgow, Scotland Joined September 2021

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Colourful Heritage @ColourHeritage

11 months ago

So pleased to see a resource about the 1947 history of partition of British India in to 🇮🇳 & 🇵🇰 as we know today. V valuable #SouthAsian history for all pupils and educators to be aware of. @HofENLcentral @StephenKelly71 @Doug_GCC @maureen0207 @MearnsCastleHT

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PortraitEMB @PortraitEMB

12 months ago

#REteachers, help us explore how themes of the #BritishEmpire, migration & belonging shape discussions on race, identity colonial legacies, & philosophy in classroom, & complete our shorter survey (15-20 mins). redcap.idhs.ucl.ac.uk/surveys/?s=99M… Your insights are key.

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KHAKI Lab @KhakiLab

a year ago

Announcing Talk 238 #AfterTheEmpire - The Legacy Of Britain's Colonial Past. In recent years, the history of the British Empire has become a very controversial, and heavily politicised topic within the UK. While some have sought, especially in the light of the Black Lives…

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Manzoor Ali @Manzoor

a year ago

Cannot wait to read the history of Bakhshali Manuscript.

William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill

a year ago

Cannot wait to read the history of Bakhshali Manuscript.

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Union Chapel London @UnionChapelUK

a year ago

📖WILLIAM DALRYMPLE - How Ancient India Transformed the World | Mon 9 Sep Join historian & Empire podcast co-host live in London as he shares the rarely told story of Ancient India’s role as a cultural & scientific superpower. Book at unionchapel.org.uk/venue/whats-on… @DalrympleWill

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Taj Ali @Taj_Ali1

a year ago

This house in a leafy North London suburb was home to Indian revolutionaries from 1905-1910. They published an anti-colonialist newspaper, smuggled weapons into India and brushed shoulders with Irish Republicans, suffragettes, Egyptian nationalists and communists.🧵

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Kavita Puri @kavpuri

2 years ago

At least three million people died in the Bengal famine in British India during WW2. There is no memorial or even a plaque to them anywhere in the world. #ThreeMillion tells their story through extraordinary eyewitness accounts. Listen NOW @BBCSounds bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m…

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William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill

2 years ago

The publication of my new book, The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World, announced @FT: What to read in 2024 - on.ft.com/3GVXupw It will be published globally by Bloomsbury in September @BloomsburyBooks @BloomsburyIndia @BloomsburyPub

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Kavita Puri @kavpuri

2 years ago

On this day 80 years ago, Ian Stephens, the editor of the British-owned Statesman newspaper, challenged the wartime censorship rules in British India, and published two distressing photographs showing the extent of the famine unfolding on the streets of Kolkata in 1943 /1

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Global Citizenship Education @GCEducationScot

2 years ago

#AzadiMubarak to India 🇮🇳

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@PartitionGroupScot @PartitionEdScot

2 years ago

76 years since independence. #AzadiMubarak to all Pakistanis all over the world. 🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰

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Saadia Faruqi @SaadiaFaruqi

2 years ago

Tomorrow is the 76th anniversary of #Partition, a political catastrophe that led to the creation of Pakistan and India. To learn more, pre-order my next middle grade novel, THE PARTITION PROJECT, coming Feb 27! harpercollins.com/products/the-p…

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Dr Jennifer Howes @jhowesuk

2 years ago

Pearly King! Nadir Shah, the Persian king who sacked Delhi in 1739. Given to the East India Co in 1822 by Nicholas Vansittart, son of Bengal's Governor in the 1760s. Displayed in East India House's library. Today in the Asia & Africa Reading Room @britishlibrary (F44). (1/2)

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Taj Ali @Taj_Ali1

2 years ago

On this day, in 1940, Indian revolutionary Udham Singh was executed for the assassination of Michael O'Dwyer, the former governor of the Punjab. The assassination was done in revenge for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar in 1919, for which O'Dwyer was responsible.