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Doctor Madhusudan Gupta performed India’s first human dissection. But what did it mean for medicine, and how did it affect colonial India?

Royal Asiatic Society’s online talk on Jennifer Howes' research and findings of the story of Tipu Sultan’s female entourage, untold for centuries

A case of misplaced blame.

Published: August 3, 2021 at 7:09 am The 70th anniversary of Indian independence triggered a remarkable outpouring of post-colonial guilt in Britain. For a younger generation with no first-hand experience of it, empire is now a dirty word – an evil occupation of other people’s countries in order to plunder their wealth. The idea that imperialism could be a benevolent, modernising force, involving collaboration and exchange between rulers and ruled, is now deeply unfashionable. And yet the survival of the British Raj in India for almost two centuries is impossible to explain with...

A veteran’s notes on the system for young doctors 'The Sickness of Health' by Kunal Sarkar was launched at a virtual session organised by the Bengal Club on Thursday A heart surgeon, commentator on public health and debater has written a book so that the younger lot of doctors get an insight into the system. The Sickness of Health, by Kunal Sarkar, was launched at a virtual session organised by the Bengal Club on Thursday. Advertisement A freewheeling chat between Sarkar, neurosurgeon and fellow ...