Demonetisation failed in 1946 too but did not cause widespread distress like in 2016

Meera H Sanyal

· Oct 25, 2018 · 08:30 am

Did you know that the history of Gurgaon goes back 2,000 years?

Veena Talwar Oldenburg

· Oct 23, 2018 · 05:46 pm

How did Maharana Pratap’s childhood prepare him to be a king? A new book looks beyond the battles

Rima Hooja

· Oct 19, 2018 · 08:30 am

As South Asia becomes a centre of geopolitics today, this book examines America’s historical role

Francis P Sempa

· Oct 17, 2018 · 08:30 am

Bhima Koregaon: Judicial commission shifts focus to contested history as hearings commence in Pune

Mridula Chari

· Oct 04, 2018 · 07:30 am

Glimpses of ‘Divan-i-Hijri’, a book of poems in the collection of Humayun’s wife Hamidah Banu

Ursula Sims-Williams

· Sep 29, 2018 · 09:30 pm

Quiz: Can you answer these questions based on an Indian history book for children?

Archana Garodia Gupta Shruti Garodia

· Sep 19, 2018 · 05:30 pm

From flying machines to robots in royal courts, science fiction has been around since medieval times

Carl Kears, The Conversation James Paz, The Conversation

· Sep 18, 2018 · 05:30 pm

A teenager traces her Indian great-great grandmother’s life as an indentured labourer in Fiji

Aanchal Malhotra

· Sep 13, 2018 · 11:30 am

Protector of Brahmins or peasant king? Why a historian of Shivaji is on Sanatan Sanstha’s hitlist

Shoaib Daniyal

· Sep 09, 2018 · 06:30 am

Bourbons and Begums: How the descendants of French royals played a vital role in Bhopal’s history

Indira Iyengar

· Sep 07, 2018 · 08:30 am

British Indian postcards had more in common with Instagram posts than we realise

Mahima Jain

· Sep 05, 2018 · 03:30 pm

If not in history books, here is a chance to read of the maritime king, Rajendra Chola I, in fiction

Urmi Chanda-Vaz

· Sep 01, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Sayyid Ahmad Khan’s 19th-century books on the pre-1857 monuments of Delhi are now in English

Sayyid Ahmad Khan Rana Safvi

· Aug 31, 2018 · 08:30 am

‘Note by Note’: The story of each year of independent India is told through film songs in this book

Sarah Farooqui

· Aug 26, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Floating down the hippie trail: This book tells the history of a heady time but lacks colour

Ajoy Bose

· Aug 26, 2018 · 08:30 am

‘Rebel Sultans’: Manu Pillai’s history of Deccan empires goes well beyond us-versus-them stories

Vivek Menezes

· Aug 25, 2018 · 08:30 am

In Pakistan, appreciation of Indus Valley Civilisation ties in with attempts to erase its Hindu past

Haroon Khalid

· Aug 24, 2018 · 12:30 pm

Kerala floods: The 2018 disaster brings back stories of destruction (and rehabilitation) from 1924

Manu S Pillai

· Aug 21, 2018 · 08:30 am

How an Indian Jew helped the Nawab of Sidi rule over the Muslim state of Janjira

Anuradha Bhattacharjee

· Aug 18, 2018 · 11:30 am