HIstory
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A 19th-century Indian queen’s photographic work has been obscured by history
Kamayani Sharma
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‘Vagabond Princess’: Ruby Lal’s biography of Mughal princess Gulbadan is lush and evocative
Rana Safvi
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Before Babur reached Hindustan: A new book details his navigation of intricacies and adversities
Aabhas Maldahiyar
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Why German and Austrian civilians were once sent from Thailand to India to be imprisoned
Ajay Kamalakaran
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How BK Sarkar’s visits to Japan and China helped him critique the West with his Young Asia theory
Sugata Bose
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Why a US maths professor created a board game about the medieval Deccan empires
Saverio E Spagnolie
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How the US press viewed Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, the first woman president of UN General Assembly
Manu Bhagavan
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When an attack on Rajendra Prasad by Fascists in Austria caused panic in Bihar
Ajay Kamalakaran
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From the biography: How Babur’s daughter Gulbadan and her companions made a pilgrimage to Mecca
Ruby Lal
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One visit to India was enough to inspire writer Lawrence Blochman for a lifetime
Anu Kumar
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Why is there so much injustice, indignity, poverty? Questions about India that puzzled Vivekananda
Rajni Bakshi
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How a (false) threat from Japan altered British attitudes towards colonial India
Mukund Padmanabhan
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How Marathi literary giant Anant Kakba Priolkar became a pioneering historian of print in India
Murali Ranganathan
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What if the Andaman and Nicobar Islands had been a part of Burma, not India?
Ajay Kamalakaran
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‘History for Peace Tracts’: Truths, histories may be multifaceted but peaceful existence is the goal
Urmi Chanda
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Why the last king of Burma spent his final decades in Ratnagiri in isolation
Ajay Kamalakaran
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‘A Fate Written on Matchboxes’: How Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed’s ten-year rule changed Kashmir
Shakir Mir
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Why Burma was separated from British India
Ajay Kamalakaran
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The true story of a ‘Circus Beauty Queen’ who lifted an elephant on her chest
Ida Jo Pajunen
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India deeply disappointed Frieda Hauswirth, but she never gave up writing about it
Anu Kumar