HIstory
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How India Became Democratic
Scroll Staff
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The Most Dangerous Place: A History of the United States in South Asia
Scroll Staff
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Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire
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Jahangir: An Intimate Portrait of a Great Mughal
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Rebel Sultans: The Deccan from Khilji to Shivaji
Scroll Staff
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Many of us read these five writers’ books in 2018. What did they enjoy reading the most?
Urvashi Bahuguna
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‘The long history of Sanskrit has many faces, including voices of protest and revolt’: David Shulman
Veena Muthuraman
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How did ordinary Indians fight for their constitutional rights? A book offers this untold history
Vikram Hegde
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Can the arrival of the Aryans in India explain the disconnect between Harappan and Vedic culture?
Tony Joseph
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Who was Mrs Sen? The search for the first woman to fly in India
Aarefa Johari
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Washers, not wipers: What ancient India’s ideas about hygiene tell us
Nayanjot Lahiri
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What colonial writing about Indian birds reveals about the British Raj
Jamil Urfi
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How old is Lahore? The clues lie in a blend of historical fact and expedient legend
Haroon Khalid
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The Goan-origin woman who fought for Angola’s freedom and was killed by its first government
Pamela D’Mello
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Photos: The Nepalese pioneers who shattered the belief that girls’ education threatens social order
Nepal Picture Library
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Satire and the Malayali: Why India’s best cartoonists almost always come from Kerala
Malini Nair
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Photos: An Indian couple has built a collection of 4,500 Raj-era picture postcards
Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri
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Meet Su Venkatesan, whose serialised Tamil novel ‘Velpari’ has crossed 100 instalments
Kavitha Muralidharan
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The Bandra resident who went on to become a pioneering tap dancer and the ‘first lady of swing’
Anu Kumar
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Can we understand modern India and China by comparing their histories?
Peter Gordon