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A group of young friends and their pet elephant meet Prince Jahangir as a boy in this new book
Shruti Garodia Archana Garodia Gupta
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A historian studies the women of the Middle Ages to know why they were kept out of popular history
Janina Ramirez
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Amid Mughal-Maratha battles, an East India Company man reaped the benefits of political neutrality
Anu Kumar
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What do medieval manuscripts tell us about cats?
Madeleine S Killacky, The Conversation
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How the world discovered chocolate
Kathryn Sampeck, The Conversation
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The story of the Indian immigrant who catalysed the New Zealand gold rush but died in near penury
Ajay Kamalakaran
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Amar Farooqui: A historian’s indelible legacy and lessons to last a lifetime
Sarath Pillai
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How an Irish poet and playwright became a part of India’s cultural mosaic
Ajay Kamalakaran
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Why a plan to link India and Burma with one of the world’s most scenic railroads didn’t work out
Ajay Kamalakaran
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A new biography visits the life of Durgawati, warrior queen of the tribal kingdom of Garha Mandla
Nandini Sengupta
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Sponsian had been dismissed as a ‘fake’ Roman emperor. My research shows he was real
Paul N Pearson, The Conversation
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Kanad Sinha, Audrey Truschke, Christophe Jaffrelot, Pratinav Anil win the 2022 Karwaan Book Award
Scroll Staff
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Watch: Bansilalpet, a 17th century stepwell in Hyderabad, has been restored meticulously
Scroll Staff
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How Indo-Persian, the language of cosmopolitan India for six centuries, fell into decline
Adhiraj Parthasarathy Mohammad Dawood
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Watch: Satirist Urvish Kothari explores ways in which India’s history can be rewritten
Scroll Staff
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Remembering the ‘Indian Titanic’ that was sunk by the Japanese
Ajay Kamalakaran
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P Sainath’s new book brings stories of the footsoldiers of India’s freedom movement
P. Sainath
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How Francis Fukuyama’s idea ‘the end of history’ may have been misinterpreted
Chris Fleming, The Conversation
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Historian Nayanjot Lahiri on encountering Indian emperor Ashoka in a small coastal town in Thailand
Nayanjot Lahiri
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Why Assamese historians and writers are protesting against the BJP’s celebration of Lachit Borphukan
Rokibuz Zaman