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Bombay

How an early version of UK’s national flag helped Bombay merchants grow their business

Richard Scott Morel
· Apr 17, 2023 · 07:30 pm
In pictures: The story of India’s classic railway buildings

Vinoo N Mathur
· Jan 12, 2023 · 08:30 am
‘The Secret of More’: Tejaswini Apte-Rahm’s debut novel delivers more than it promises

Shubhangi Tiwari
· Dec 03, 2022 · 12:30 pm
Language, power and politics: The shifts from 1960-’90 that came to make and unmake Mumbai

Sujata Patel D Parthasarathy George Jose
· Nov 16, 2022 · 08:30 am
From pamphlets to publishing: Remembering the remarkable career of Samuel ‘Sammy’ Israel

Rivka Israel
· Oct 15, 2022 · 12:30 pm
An 18th-century letter to Bombay shows what it was like to be in service of the East India Company

Peter Good
· Aug 17, 2022 · 01:30 pm
In searching for my ancestor Miguel of Mazagon, I found his role in a key Anglo-Portuguese deal

Megan deSouza Denis Rodrigues
· Nov 28, 2021 · 01:30 pm
Why the Portuguese administrators in India tried to stop the handover of Bombay to the British

Luis Dias
· Jun 10, 2021 · 11:30 am
Tracing the overlapping lives of my great-grandfather and one of the heroes of the Bombay Plague

Luis Dias
· Apr 28, 2021 · 11:30 am
How I wrote the pandemic. Not the current one, but the one in Bombay over 100 years ago

Kalpish Ratna
· Sep 15, 2020 · 05:30 pm
Sushant Singh coverage: Former IPS officers move Bombay HC against ‘malicious, false media campaign’

Scroll Staff
· Sep 02, 2020 · 10:48 pm
Mahatma Gandhi refused to support general strikes in Bombay. A British newspaper editor took him on

Sheetal Chhabria
· Aug 21, 2020 · 08:30 am
Dinner with the Tatas: Letters from a Frenchwoman document life in Bombay as the 20th century dawned

Marguerite de Bure
· Aug 14, 2020 · 05:30 pm
1918 Bombay Fever: How voluntary groups sprang up in the face of state ‘neglect’

Mridula Ramanna
· Jul 05, 2020 · 11:30 am
This memoir explores life under the mortal threat of a pandemic over 100 years ago

Gayathri Prabhu
· Jun 21, 2020 · 05:30 pm
How WM Haffkine developed a vaccine for the plague epidemic that hit Bombay in 1896

Ambarish Satwik
· May 11, 2020 · 05:30 pm
IIT-Bombay warns students to not participate in ‘anti-national’ activities amid anti-CAA protests

Scroll Staff
· Jan 29, 2020 · 02:37 pm
Mumbai has forgotten the ‘leading historian’ who once highlighted its forgotten past

Murali Ranganathan
· May 07, 2019 · 11:30 am
Rudolf von Leyden: The German-born cartoonist who became Bombay’s top art critic in the 1930s

Mollie Arbuthnot
· Dec 16, 2018 · 01:30 pm
This old Parsi cookbook is as singular as the community whose recipes it documents

Anisha Rachel Oommen Aysha Tanya
· Jun 13, 2018 · 11:30 am