How similar was Neanderthal Man to Homo Sapiens? Novelist William Golding got there before science

Arnab Chakraborty

· Apr 22, 2018 · 07:00 am

Interview: ‘Cricket has a place in textbooks because history is not only about the past’

Shreya Roy Chowdhury

· Apr 21, 2018 · 10:30 am

Can the history of South India be told in a single book? No, but this one tells stories that matter

Veena Muthuraman

· Apr 21, 2018 · 08:30 am

How an ‘accidental’ gunshot at a family picnic led to the 107-year-long rule of the Begums of Bhopal

Shaharyar Muhammed Khan

· Apr 18, 2018 · 08:30 am

Resistance and resilience: Dalit History Month 2018 showcases neglected histories and untold stories

Mridula Chari

· Apr 15, 2018 · 11:30 am

The day 385 years ago when bananas made their British debut

Rebecca Earle, The Conversation

· Apr 12, 2018 · 11:30 pm

100 years on, remembering the Hindu-German conspiracy to violently overthrow the British Raj

Anu Kumar

· Apr 10, 2018 · 11:30 am

Who left these ancient sculptures of horsemen around the Pir Panjal range?

Prashant Mathawan

· Apr 06, 2018 · 11:30 am

A unique boat museum in Kolkata pays tribute to Bengal’s rivers and their forgotten traditions

Deepanjan Ghosh

· Apr 02, 2018 · 11:30 am

Photos: Treatises on Hindustani music from Akbar’s reign that shaped music theory for centuries

Katherine Butler Schofield

· Mar 31, 2018 · 08:30 pm

75 years since the Bengal famine: How much was Churchill’s bias to blame for the death of millions?

Madhushree Mukerjee

· Mar 30, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Mary Beard’s new book traces the history of modern day templates of misogyny (and they go far back)

Lopa Ghosh

· Mar 25, 2018 · 07:00 am

For India’s docile media, a lesson in press freedom from 18th century Calcutta

Anu Kumar

· Mar 15, 2018 · 11:30 am

India should draft a fresh secular code applicable to all citizens, writes historian Romila Thapar

Romila Thapar

· Mar 14, 2018 · 05:53 pm

The quest to preserve the ‘Lotus Sutra’, Buddha’s final teaching on salvation

Mélodie Doumy

· Mar 10, 2018 · 09:30 pm

‘In new India, anyone who shreds a few posters at the crossroads becomes a historian’: Ravish Kumar

Ravish Kumar

· Mar 09, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Video: This is believed to be the world’s oldest message in a bottle. What does it say?

Reuters

· Mar 09, 2018 · 01:34 pm

Video: Why was March 8 chosen as the day to commemorate International Women’s Day?

Scroll Staff

· Mar 08, 2018 · 07:00 am

‘The Russian-style British regime in India is doomed’: What Vladimir Lenin wrote in 1908

Scroll Staff

· Mar 07, 2018 · 05:18 pm

As newly independent India set about becoming a democracy, the press played a crucial role

Ornit Shani

· Mar 07, 2018 · 08:30 am