HIstory
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When Arab traders made a fortune in pearl trade in Bombay
Ajay Kamalakaran
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This book recounts the near-forgotten tale of the Hindu Sahi kingdom in present day Afghanistan
Changez Jan
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Thank Mughal love for fruit for murabba’s popularity in India
Priyadarshini Chatterjee
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‘The book that changed me’: A historian’s take on Priya Satia’s ‘Time’s Monster’
Yves Rees, The Conversation
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In 18th-century London, a ‘monster’ was stalking the streets and stabbing women
Maddy Smith
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Why India signed a peace treaty with Thailand in 1946 – and how it set the tone for their relations
Ajay Kamalakaran
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The story of an Indian ayah who fought her British employers in court in 1826 – and won
Margaret Makepeace
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How scientists solved the centuries-old mystery of Black Death’s origins
Philip Slavin, The Conversation
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What the man in Pompeii clutching himself was actually doing when Vesuvius erupted 2,000 years ago
Esmé Louise James, The Conversation
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‘A grand new palace of administration’: When Britain’s India Office got a new address in 1867
Margaret Makepeace
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The delicious story of how Milkmaid became the byword for condensed milk in India
Priyadarshini Chatterjee
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2022 Karwaan Prize: Ten longlisted books that focus on the history of the Indian subcontinent
Scroll Staff
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A Sinhalese missionary’s quest to reclaim the Mahabodhi Temple in Bodh Gaya for Buddhists
Ajay Kamalakaran
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A remarkably opulent country: Observations of the first American to write a book on India
Anu Kumar
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Watch: A new rendition of Moonlight Sonata, arranged by musician AR Rahman
Scroll Staff
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Aanchal Malhotra’s ‘In the Language of Remembering’ gives voice to the pain of leaving ‘home’ behind
Prerna Vij
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Amid global warming, Bangladesh’s historic coastal mosques stare at an uncertain future
Mosabber Hossain, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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In Elizabethan England, a law that made it illegal to let anybody starve led to economic gains
Simon Szreter, The Conversation
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The story of Gertrude Emerson, the globe-trotting adventurer who made India her home
Anu Kumar
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When India was a ‘land of diamonds’, Russian tsars eagerly tried to build ties with Aurangzeb
Ajay Kamalakaran