Contents

General Essays

• An Uneasy Rendezvous with the Picturesque | Reflecting on DAG’s recent exhibition ‘The Indian Picturesque: Landscape painting 1800-1850’ 

• Dyed in Dandyism: From Mughal courts to contemporary fashion spectacle

• What do SRK’s Kabir Khan and history’s Muhammad bin Tughluq have in common?

• Agra | The romance of yesteryears

• History: Science or fiction?

• From early modern voyage to modern wanderlust: Lessons from the French doctor François Bernier’s travels to Mughal South Asia

• A commoner’s “personal curriculum” in Mughal South Asia: Sciences, traditions, and healthcare

• Mystics, Markets, and Monarchs: Reading Sufism between stories and structures

• The Mughal Eye: How even the tablecloth was a statement

• Romanticise Academia? Can’t Relate: Engaging with academic-digital subcultures

• Until Lions have Their Own Historians: Reading power, silence and memory

• Mughal Gardens, British Gardening and Netflix’s Gardener: On the ever growing thicket of history

• Cursed with Context: A historian’s lament

On microhistory

• Oversimplifying Microhistory | A response to ‘microhistory goes mainstream’

• The materiality of letter-writing: A hindsight

• Reflections on methodology | The narrative value of private letters in microhistory

• Stretching microhistory to the point of absurdity | What ‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’ tells us about female desire

• On the macro in microhistory: When history zooms in, when history zooms out

• Living in a marketplace: A microhistory of respectability

• What do two microhistories and one bollywood film have in common? | Between the Return of Martin Guerre, the Princely Impostor, and Shah Rukh Khan’s Paheli

• What is my book 'The Sky Poured Down Candy' about? | The practice of microhistory: Capturing veins, emotions, and rhythms

Photo Essays

• My first encounter with the ‘self as author’ | Book unboxing photo essay

• Photo essay | Postcards from Agra, India