It is often claimed that British imperial history is a story of exploitation. If that's the case...
Author - R P Fernando
The Ceylon Journal and its Tribute to Sir Alexander Johnston
Rohan Fernando draws our attention to a new periodical about his native Sri Lanka and its...
The 150th Anniversary of the Indian Meteorological Department...
In another of his articles on the colonial foundations of modern India, Rohan Fernando examines the...
The Great Canals of India
Britain made many contributions to India's cultural, technological and agricultural development. In...
Debate: The Colonial Museum as a Tool of Control
In essays for History Reclaimed and in other books and articles, Rohan Fernando has emphasized the...
On the William Jones memorial in University College, Oxford
Mark Stocker and Rohan Fernando add further evidence to contradict the 'anticolonialism' of...
The Centenary of the Discovery of the Indus Valley Civilisation...
2024 marked the centenary of the discovery of the Indus Valley Civilisation. In another of his...
The Great Surveys of India
In another of his articles on the cultural and scientific contributions of the British in India...
A critique of claims made in The Golden Road by William Dalrymple
In this review of William Dalrymple's new book The Golden Road, R. P. Fernando argues that the...
Indian Postage Stamps Commemorating Colonial Legacies
Postage stamps show us the heart and soul of a nation, the people and events of which it is proud...
