The history they got wrong. Essays on maritime trade, ancient India, and the decisions that made and destroyed civilisations. By Nick Collins - Cambridge-educated historian, forty years in shipping.
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Migration Out of India Seeded the Ancient World
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Two hills stand on the border of Cork and Kerry, in southwest Ireland. Locals still call them the Paps of Danu. They are shaped like breasts and named for a goddess. Every spring at Beltane, the old fire festival, farmers use...
Beyond Borders: The Indus-Sarasvati Civilisation and Pakistan’s Search for Identity
Note: This essay was first published in New Delhi Post
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Pakistan’s renewed embrace of the Indus Civilisation comes after decades of defining itself almost exclusively through an Islamic identity. While archaeology cont...
The Aryan Invasion Theory That Refuses to Die
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Around 1,500 BC, according to a story still repeated in serious publications, migrants from Central Asia walked into northern India and composed the Rig Veda. Among the hymns they wrote were those to the Sarasvati, the mighti...
Mesopotamia Was Never the Cradle of Civilisation. India Was.
Note: this is an expanded version of an essay first published on Firstpost.
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I spent 40 years in the international shipping industry, in London, Tokyo, Singapore and Dubai. When I decided to write a book on the history...
Bombay: The City That Commerce Built
In 1661, Portugal gave England an island off the west coast of India as part of the dowry of Catherine of Braganza when marrying Charles II. He was not particularly grateful. The island had poor soil, a malarial climate, no significant hint...
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