How a steamer service from Calcutta transformed Rangoon from an overgrown village to a boomtown

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Mar 30, 2022 · 11:30 am

Watch: Five ancient tombs discovered at archaeological site near Egyptian capital Cairo

Scroll Staff

· Mar 20, 2022 · 11:51 am

How India’s economy under Nehru came to be steered by a professor and an academic institute

Nikhil Menon

· Mar 16, 2022 · 06:30 am

The mystery of an ancient Hindu-Buddhist kingdom in Malay Peninsula

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Mar 12, 2022 · 11:30 am

Throughout history, Russian rulers have used the medieval Kyivan Rus state to justify expansionism

Christoph Mick, The Conversation

· Mar 10, 2022 · 11:30 pm

‘Delhi, In Thy Name’: An unusual history of India’s capital is revealed by its neighbourhoods

Kanupriya Dhingra

· Mar 05, 2022 · 08:30 am

Before Armenians flourished in Bombay and Calcutta, they found a thriving home in Surat

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Mar 01, 2022 · 11:30 am

A historian clears up some mistruths and half-truths about the history of Ukraine and Russia

Ronald Suny, The Conversation

· Feb 27, 2022 · 07:30 pm

How the Mahabharata rules the national imagination through a mix of fact and fantasy

Urmi Chanda

· Feb 26, 2022 · 08:30 am

The diary of a Dutch East India Company soldier who was marooned on a desert island

Maddy Smith

· Feb 22, 2022 · 07:30 pm

Reading ‘The Dawn of Everything’ from India: What if the past was a more enlightened place?

Durba Chattaraj

· Feb 12, 2022 · 05:30 pm

Gunavarman: The Kashmiri monk who helped spread Buddhism across Asia

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Feb 12, 2022 · 11:30 am

‘A king could have commanded the worst atrocities on enemies and yet built awe-inspiring temples’

Vikram Chandra

· Feb 06, 2022 · 12:30 pm

A brief history of how Parsis flourished in Zanzibar (with a cameo from Freddie Mercury)

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Feb 05, 2022 · 11:30 am

Revisiting Rana Safvi’s Delhi trilogy shows how her books capture long-term history, not moments

Avik Chanda

· Jan 29, 2022 · 05:30 pm

How a pioneering Greek scholar was robbed of the credit for translating Chanakya’s words in Sanskrit

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Jan 29, 2022 · 11:30 am

Shruti Kapila’s new book frames India’s political history in violence to explain the current reality

Narayani Basu

· Jan 22, 2022 · 12:30 pm

Humayun’s tomb: What are the architectural principles and influences on the famous Delhi monument?

Shashank Shekhar Sinha

· Jan 21, 2022 · 08:30 am

This novel is based on the life of Sultan Razziat, the only woman emperor to have ruled from Delhi

Meena Arora Nayak

· Jan 19, 2022 · 05:30 pm

When a Belgian baron built a ‘Hindu palace’ near Cairo

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Jan 18, 2022 · 11:30 am