HIstory
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History Literature Festival Book Awards has announced its 2025 shortlist of ten titles
Scroll Staff
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Amid war, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan reimagined India-China ties through philosophy
Ajay Kamalakaran
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When the Dogras built Vaishnavite temples in Kashmir
Sameer Hamdani
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‘India’s First Radicals’ argues for a generous assessment of 19th-century Indian intellectual life
Ankush Pal
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When the court-martial of three INA officers impacted the final phase of India’s quest for freedom
Ashis Ray
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When Sikhs chased a new world in Argentina – and found a nightmare instead
Ajay Kamalakaran
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A new biography highlights Akbar’s general Raja Man Singh’s statesmanship and patronage of the arts
Rima Hooja
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‘The Golden Calm’: Traces of an empire, MM Kaye, the Metcalfes, and a city before the storm
Swati Daftuar
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A new book recounts myths and legends about Jamali-Kamali and other ‘haunted’ monuments in Delhi
Eric Chopra
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Gillian Tindall (1938-2025): A Bombay biographer who opened the city’s eyes to its own stories
Murali Ranganathan
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The Indian doctors who risked their lives to support China in its war with Japan
Ajay Kamalakaran
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‘Indira Gandhi and the Years that Transformed India’ stands apart from other books on the subject
Nikhil Sanjay-Rekha Adsule
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Enemy Foreigners: The Thais caught in Britain’s wartime net across colonial India
Ajay Kamalakaran
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‘He pulls everything that’s floating closer to the centre’: Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt
Muddasir Ramzan
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‘Sheher Mein Gaon’: A compelling articulation of the many tangled issues of Delhi’s ‘urban villages’
Madhulika Liddle
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A new book recounts British Governor Cornwallis’s attempts to remove Tipu Sultan
Amar Farooqui
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What Syed Ahmad Khan’s 1847 architectural history of Delhi says about contemporary India
Fahad Zuberi
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Indian stock market history: How the SIP became popular and democratised finance
Adil Rustomjee
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Commerce amid suspicion: Inside Russia’s 19th-century push to trade with India
Ajay Kamalakaran
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Forgotten migrants, unfinished decolonisation: Why Kalyani Ramnath writes about citizenship history
Kalyani Ramnath