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How a sadistic British imperial officer came to be worshipped as a living god in India

Sean Lang, The Conversation
· Jul 22, 2018 · 08:30 pm
When a British officer wrote to London requesting financial aid for poor Indian women in Syria

Louis Allday
· Jun 12, 2018 · 01:30 pm
Did Hindu-Muslim conflicts in India really start with British rule?

Ajay Verghese
· Jun 05, 2018 · 01:30 pm
How to transport swords and scabbards from England to India, according to an 18th-century letter

Karen Stapley
· May 26, 2018 · 09:30 pm
What a 160-year-old skull found in small-town England can tell us about the 1857 revolt in India

Kim A Wagner
· Feb 09, 2018 · 08:30 am
London’s mayor asks British government to issue a formal apology for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre

Scroll Staff
· Dec 06, 2017 · 08:16 pm
Narendra Modi wants the nation to revive the Quit India spirit. But will his own party pay heed?

Sudheendra Kulkarni
· Aug 09, 2017 · 10:30 am
Pakistan past and present: Crumbling Hindu buildings in Lahore’s oldest market trace the transition

Haroon Khalid
· Jul 28, 2017 · 06:30 pm
History revisited: 'Bande Mataram' was written as a song about Bengal – not India

Garga Chatterjee
· Mar 31, 2017 · 05:30 pm
Made by the British and approved by Jahangir: A 17th-century map of India

Ursula Sims-Williams
· Jan 04, 2016 · 08:30 pm