The Microhistorian
Riya Gupta, PhDWritings on history from a historian with a PhD in early modern South Asian history.
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Why history needed defending in the twentieth century and why it still does today
… history has become a multicultural domain, where different groupings struggle for intellectual supremacy on the battleground of ideas, courses and university history syllabuses. It is surely not out of place in this situation to plead f...
Rethinking historical objectivity: Rankean principles v/s Rajasthan’s bardic traditions
In a Rajasthani court two centuries ago, a coloniser asks for records. The clerk produces a bundle of Persian documents, but a bard begins to recite an epic describing the ancestral lineage of the royal house. For the clerk, the papers are...
Re-reading ‘What is History’ after a history PhD
Certain fictional, non-fictional, and even academic works, possess a remarkable ability to linger in the minds of their readers long after the final page. For this writer, one such work has been What Is History? by E. H. Carr. First publish...
Museums, memory, and the making of identity: Reimagining Punjab’s Past after India's partition
Step into 1947-49, when Partition was still unfolding as lived experience rather than distant history. This piece reimagines museums not as static memorials, but as dynamic spaces where memory, belonging, and identity were actively shaped i...
An Uneasy Rendezvous with the Picturesque
Can one really fail to see colonialism in almost everything as a South Asian? Sathnam Sanghera, author of Empireworld, and I would disagree. As I wrote in an earlier blog, ‘Cursed with Context: A historian’s lament’, bliss belongs to the ig...
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Historian with a PhD in early modern South Asian history and interest in literary studies. Author of ‘The Sky Poured Down Candy’ (Routledge, 2026).
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