Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar II was the people’s emperor – courteous to his own and the British

Swapna Liddle

· Jan 30, 2023 · 08:30 am

Fiction: A courtesan renounces pleasure and embraces Buddhism after she is betrayed by the world

Tanushree Podder

· Jan 26, 2023 · 12:30 pm

P Sainath’s new book amplifies voices and excavates memories of India’s forgotten freedom fighters

Saloni Sharma

· Jan 21, 2023 · 07:30 am

Why Assamese Muslims are smarting at CM’s dismissal of their hero Bagh Hazarika as fictional

Rokibuz Zaman

· Jan 21, 2023 · 06:30 am

Watch: Romila Thapar on how disproven stories are being made the basis of a new brand of history

Scroll Staff

· Jan 18, 2023 · 11:20 am

How are history books written for school-going readers in India? Here is an example

Roshen Dalal

· Jan 17, 2023 · 03:30 pm

A group of young friends and their pet elephant meet Prince Jahangir as a boy in this new book

Shruti Garodia Archana Garodia Gupta

· Jan 03, 2023 · 11:30 am

A historian studies the women of the Middle Ages to know why they were kept out of popular history

Janina Ramirez

· Jan 02, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Amid Mughal-Maratha battles, an East India Company man reaped the benefits of political neutrality

Anu Kumar

· Dec 31, 2022 · 11:30 am

What do medieval manuscripts tell us about cats?

Madeleine S Killacky, The Conversation

· Dec 27, 2022 · 11:30 pm

How the world discovered chocolate

Kathryn Sampeck, The Conversation

· Dec 26, 2022 · 11:30 pm

The story of the Indian immigrant who catalysed the New Zealand gold rush but died in near penury

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Dec 24, 2022 · 11:30 am

Amar Farooqui: A historian’s indelible legacy and lessons to last a lifetime

Sarath Pillai

· Dec 19, 2022 · 11:30 am

How an Irish poet and playwright became a part of India’s cultural mosaic

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Dec 17, 2022 · 11:30 am

Why a plan to link India and Burma with one of the world’s most scenic railroads didn’t work out

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Dec 10, 2022 · 11:30 am

A new biography visits the life of Durgawati, warrior queen of the tribal kingdom of Garha Mandla

Nandini Sengupta

· Dec 08, 2022 · 08:30 am

Sponsian had been dismissed as a ‘fake’ Roman emperor. My research shows he was real

Paul N Pearson, The Conversation

· Dec 07, 2022 · 11:30 pm

Kanad Sinha, Audrey Truschke, Christophe Jaffrelot, Pratinav Anil win the 2022 Karwaan Book Award

Scroll Staff

· Dec 06, 2022 · 02:21 pm

Watch: Bansilalpet, a 17th century stepwell in Hyderabad, has been restored meticulously

Scroll Staff

· Dec 06, 2022 · 12:50 pm

How Indo-Persian, the language of cosmopolitan India for six centuries, fell into decline

Adhiraj Parthasarathy Mohammad Dawood

· Dec 04, 2022 · 08:30 am