HIstory
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‘For a fuller understanding of modern India, we must also investigate the princely states’
Avik Chanda
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Watch: 900-year-old sword, believed to have been a crusader’s, recovered from Mediterranean seabed
Scroll Staff
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When Maldives was ruled by Catholic kings living all the way in Goa
Ajay Kamalakaran
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In the 19th century, groups of American women rose up in support of an Indian activist
Anu Kumar
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Watch: Why was ancient Egyptian king Tutankhamun’s tomb not a grand structure?
Scroll Staff
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Mariamman in Saigon: The story of Vietnam’s most famous Hindu temple
Ajay Kamalakaran
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‘The Grand Anicut’: The Cholas are in control, and a dam is coming up on the Kaveri in this novel
Veena Muthuraman
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Manu S Pillai on how maharajah Sayaji Rao of Baroda (temporarily) defied the British government
Manu S Pillai
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Re-reading ‘Empress’: As a feminist historian, Ruby Lal offers a scholarly look at Nur Jahan’s life
Avik Chanda
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Remembering SS Dwarka, the ship that carried Indian migrant workers to the Gulf for decades
Ajay Kamalakaran
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When Madras Army soldiers protested about the loss of extra pay
Margaret Makepeace
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What the letters from colonial India’s first archaeologist to his assistant reveal about his work
Upinder Singh
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‘Lahore’: This ambitious partition trilogy begins with negotiations and a love story
Manreet Sodhi Someshwar
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What does the writing of Constitutions have to do with wars? Plenty, as this book proves
Dinyar Patel
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Taliban’s return threatens what’s left of Afghanistan’s dazzlingly diverse heritage
Julian Droogan, The Conversation Malcolm Choat, The Conversation
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Even if you know everything about Emperor Ashoka, there are very good reasons to read ‘Asoca’
Sahana Hegde
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An Indian business community had thrived in Xinjiang before the Communists took over in China
Ajay Kamalakaran
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This translation of a historical novel asks whether the writer and the translator are joint authors
Prerna Vij
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Peggy Mohan’s book on India’s languages does not tell stories that suit the new political narrative
Umang Poddar
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Neither Ram Rajya nor golden Vedic age: Gail Omvedt (1941-2021) on the history of a casteless future
Gail Omvedt