HIstory
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What led to the 1929 Lahore Conspiracy Case, where Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, and Rajguru were on trial?
Aparna Vaidik
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How a hockey club helped Punjabi immigrants integrate into Canadian society
Ajay Kamalakaran
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Podcast: What does history say about how Mumbai changed and stayed the same over the past 200 years?
Dinyar Patel
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Remembering P Thankappan Nair (1933-2024), the historian-archivist-bibliographer of Kolkata
Sujaan Mukherjee
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A short history of how India became a global powerhouse in hockey in the 1920s
Ajay Kamalakaran
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‘Hockey rajahs’: When Dhyan Chand’s India cast a spell on Australia
Ajay Kamalakaran
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How poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan coined the term ‘Videsh Mantralaya’ (which impressed PM Nehru)
Kallol Bhattacharjee
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Why these travel posters sparked a fiery debate between Indian and British legislators in the 1930s
Kamayani Sharma
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Why Rabindranath Tagore saw great potential in Canada
Ajay Kamalakaran
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From a book on frauds: How a scandal surrounding a French royal led to the French Revolution
Vijay Narayan Govind
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How Indians subverted Canada’s racist immigration policy – with a little help from a Japanese firm
Ajay Kamalakaran
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What a regal South Indian ornament in a famous Rossetti painting tells us about the British Raj
Kamayani Sharma
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‘One of the greatest statesmen’: When Canada celebrated an Indian prime minister’s visit
Ajay Kamalakaran
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‘Panic Sunday’: The day in 1857 when Wajid Ali Shah was arrested on charges of conspiracy
Sudipta Mitra
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‘Hand of God’: How a young Indian Navy sailor returned from the dead in Australia in 1951
Ajay Kamalakaran
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Joya Chatterji’s ‘Shadows at Noon’ wins best history book at the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Awards
Scroll Staff
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What children can learn from the stunning animal carvings on the rocks of Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu
Ashwin Prabhu
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Why Britain rebuffed Australia’s effort to recruit Indian labour for its pearl fishing industry
Ajay Kamalakaran
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Husna Bai: The tawaif who made Hindustani music a respectable profession for women artists
AK Gandhi
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How Indians won civil rights in Australia
Ajay Kamalakaran