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Shefali Chandan

Shefali Kaajal Chandan is the editor of Jano (www.janoed.com), a new online history magazine for Asian Indian families.

The Colonial Eye: When Britain’s Middle Class Came To India To Find Opportunity, Status, And Love

Shefali Chandan
Curry and Rice: The Ingredients of Social Life at “Our” Station in India by Captain G F Atkinson (1860) (Public domain)

The Colonial Eye: Mark Twain Wrote What He Saw In India – Beyond The Oriental Banality

Shefali Chandan
Benares. <i>Following the Equator</i> (1897), Mark Twain

The Delhi Durbar Of 1903, In The Colonial Eye

Shefali Chandan
Illustration: Veterans of the Mutiny (1857) on the Great Day, Delhi, 1903; Mortimer Menpes

How Churchill’s Denial Of The Atlantic Charter Rewards To India Pitted Him Against Roosevelt

Shefali K. Chandan
6yr Blogs
Franklin D Roosevelt and Winston Churchill seated on the quarterdeck of HMS Prince of Wales following a Sunday service during the Atlantic Conference, 10 August 1941. (Wikimedia Commons)

The Colonial Eye: How The Pretentious Indian “Baboo” Came To Be Satirised

Shefali K. Chandan
“The Shallabalah Maharajah or the Confessions of an Indian Prince” (<i>Punch</i>, or <i>The London Charivari</i>, January 14, 1888)

The Colonial Eye: As The British Saw And Described Indians

Shefali K. Chandan
A picture portraying the idea that natives of India make excellent servants ... reproductions from specially prepared hand-coloured photographs with descriptive letterpress” by F M Coleman, 1897.&nbsp;

American GI Life In India During Second World War

Shefali K. Chandan
6yr World
Crowd gathers around a sidewalk performer at a bus stop while GIs take temporary advantage of an overhead view from the steps of a camp bus.

When Indian Soldiers Helped Turn The Tide In Favour Of The Allies In World War-II

Shefali K. Chandan
7yr World
The “China-Burma-India theatre” refers to the United States military’s operations in China, parts of south-east Asia, Burma and eastern India.

The History Of Discriminatory Immigration Laws That Kept Indians Out Of The US For 40 Years

Shefali K. Chandan
7yr World
Protesters hold signs during a demonstration against the immigration ban that was imposed by US President Donald Trump at Los Angeles International Airport on 29 January 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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