HIstory
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Arley Munson’s words are a troubling reminder of how Kipling’s India treated women
Anu Kumar
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A new book talks of IM Lall, the ICS officer who defied the British Empire and won a case against it
Chander M Lall
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A new novel imagines the life of Waris Shah, the creator of the evergreen lovers Heer and Ranjha
Haroon Khalid
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While Indians faced prejudice and abuse in Thailand, British colonists chose to dilly-dally
Ajay Kamalakaran
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Memoir: A French soldier’s fascinating contemporary commentary on the rapidly decaying Mughal Empire
Comte de Modave GS Cheema
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History for children: What are the two kinds of administration that rulers of South India followed?
Pradeep Chakravarthy
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A 19th-century Indian queen’s photographic work has been obscured by history
Kamayani Sharma
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‘Vagabond Princess’: Ruby Lal’s biography of Mughal princess Gulbadan is lush and evocative
Rana Safvi
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Before Babur reached Hindustan: A new book details his navigation of intricacies and adversities
Aabhas Maldahiyar
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Why German and Austrian civilians were once sent from Thailand to India to be imprisoned
Ajay Kamalakaran
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How BK Sarkar’s visits to Japan and China helped him critique the West with his Young Asia theory
Sugata Bose
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Why a US maths professor created a board game about the medieval Deccan empires
Saverio E Spagnolie
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How the US press viewed Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, the first woman president of UN General Assembly
Manu Bhagavan
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When an attack on Rajendra Prasad by Fascists in Austria caused panic in Bihar
Ajay Kamalakaran
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From the biography: How Babur’s daughter Gulbadan and her companions made a pilgrimage to Mecca
Ruby Lal
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One visit to India was enough to inspire writer Lawrence Blochman for a lifetime
Anu Kumar
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Why is there so much injustice, indignity, poverty? Questions about India that puzzled Vivekananda
Rajni Bakshi
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How a (false) threat from Japan altered British attitudes towards colonial India
Mukund Padmanabhan
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How Marathi literary giant Anant Kakba Priolkar became a pioneering historian of print in India
Murali Ranganathan
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What if the Andaman and Nicobar Islands had been a part of Burma, not India?
Ajay Kamalakaran