@PartitionGroupScot

Developing Scotland's first framework of teaching of the partition of 1947. In collaboration with partners @partitiongroup @gceducationscot #Decolonise

[@PartitionGroupScot @PartitionEdScot]

Our group aims to produce 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 first comprehensive teaching & learning resource for the partition of 1947,creating modern day India, Pakistan & eventually Bangladesh. It is vital our pupils understand the history and impact of this not just for those nations but on Britain today.

[Colourful Heritage @ColourHeritage]

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

[PortraitEMB @PortraitEMB]

#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).
https://t.co/IYe8IoMZAG
Your insights are key.

[KHAKI Lab @KhakiLab]

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 Matter movement, to draw attention to long-buried aspects of its racism and violence, others, associated especially with the populist right wing that dominated under the last Conservative government, have reacted with vigorous defences of the Empire's morality and beneficial effects.

At our Online Talk #AfterTheEmpire, historical geographer @aljhlester considers how historical research and the politics of imperial history coalesce.

📍Sat | 31st August | 6 PM IST | Zoom
Admission free.
Register now at: https://t.co/SKwPjDGrk4

About the speaker:

Alan Lester is Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Sussex, UK and Adjunct Professor of History at La Trobe University, Australia. He has been researching, teaching and writing about British colonialism for over thirty years. His latest book is The Truth About Empire: Real Histories of British Colonialism, published by Hurst in 2024.

#KhakiLab #OnlineTalk #FreeTalk #Heritage #History #BritishEmpire #ColonialHistory

[Manzoor Ali @Manzoor]

Cannot wait to read the history of Bakhshali Manuscript.

[Union Chapel London @UnionChapelUK]

📖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 https://t.co/aB0HoDIKs2

@DalrympleWill

[Taj Ali @Taj_Ali1]

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.🧵

[Kavita Puri @kavpuri]

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
https://t.co/igJHv8aG2F

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

The publication of my new book, The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World, announced @FT:

What to read in 2024 - https://t.co/FxnAHP1ReG

It will be published globally by Bloomsbury in September
@BloomsburyBooks
@BloomsburyIndia
@BloomsburyPub

[Kavita Puri @kavpuri]

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

[Global Citizenship Education @GCEducationScot]

#AzadiMubarak to India 🇮🇳

[@PartitionGroupScot @PartitionEdScot]

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

[Saadia Faruqi @SaadiaFaruqi]

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!
https://t.co/eevhntMVq1

[Dr Jennifer Howes @jhowesuk]

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)

[Taj Ali @Taj_Ali1]

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.