The Microhistorian
Riya Gupta, PhDA place for people’s history, history of everyday life in early modern South Asia; woven together with personal experiences of being a historian.
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Margins of a Mughal Life: The correspondence of Abdul Jalil Bilgrami (part one)
After several rejections from fellowships and major publishing houses, I have decided to take my translation project to Substack.
Public history for the win!
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The letters of Abdul Jalil Bilgrami, a petty official...
Dyed in Dandyism: From Mughal courts to contemporary fashion spectacle
When the 2025 Met Gala unveiled its theme, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, it offered more than a sartorial spectacle. It foregrounded the cultural and political power of fashion.
Tracing a lineage of Black dandyism, a movement where fas...
What do SRK’s Kabir Khan and history’s Muhammad bin Tughluq have in common?
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This is not my first bollywood-history essay. A while ago I wrote a very satisfying one titled What do two microhistories and one bollywood f...
A Displaced Mughal Prince’s Modest Literary Legacy
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In the concluding pages of the saga of the Mughals, the fate of the descendants of Bahadur Shah Zafar (r. 1837–57), the last Mughal emperor,...
I wrote my PhD thesis out of spite and here is why I don’t recommend it...
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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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