From valuable friends to impure evil: How the Muslim world’s opinion of dogs changed

Alan Mikhail

· Jul 23, 2017 · 11:30 am

In photos: From ornate to simple, bindings on manuscripts from Tipu Sultan’s court

Ursula Sims-Williams

· Jul 19, 2017 · 08:30 pm

How Ramachandra Guha came to write ‘India After Gandhi’, the first popular post-1947 history

Ramachandra Guha

· Jul 18, 2017 · 08:30 am

Strings attached: A short history of the Western classical guitar in India

Kuldeep Barve

· Jul 16, 2017 · 11:30 am

Ancient ruins keep being ‘discovered’, but were they ever really lost?

Christopher Begley

· Jul 13, 2017 · 09:30 pm

The Indian adventures of Amelia Earhart before she disappeared into oblivion

Anvar Alikhan

· Jul 08, 2017 · 11:30 am

How a Hindu temple was renovated by a Muslim and a Sufi shrine revamped by a Sikh in Pakistan

Haroon Khalid

· Jun 30, 2017 · 06:30 pm

Watch: Journey of the treadmill from a prison punishment to a self-inflicted one

Scroll Staff

· Jun 25, 2017 · 07:28 pm

June 25: Even if you forget the Emergency of 1975, these seven books will remind you

Devapriya Roy

· Jun 25, 2017 · 07:00 am

These two books reveal how Tamil enterprise and Bombay merchants helped build business in India

Sarojesh Mukherjee

· Jun 23, 2017 · 08:30 am

To aid its global rise, China is reconstructing its history to show itself as peace-loving

Suisheng Zhao

· Jun 22, 2017 · 09:30 pm

Indian Railways has long thrived in the popular imagination. Is this cultural story about to end?

Huzaifa Omair Siddiqi

· Jun 18, 2017 · 05:30 pm

‘Facts are not truth’: Hilary Mantel explains why fantasy must inhabit historical fiction

Michael Durrant, The Conversation

· Jun 18, 2017 · 03:30 pm

Everyone can now read this breathtaking eyewitness account of the 1857 mutiny

Zahir Dehlvi

· Jun 16, 2017 · 08:30 am

Readers’ comments: ‘Kashmir belongs equally to Pandits who were driven out, Harsh Mander’

Scroll

· Jun 09, 2017 · 10:30 pm

Royal companions and warriors: How elephants have been depicted in Asia’s history and mythology

Sud Chonchirdsin

· May 29, 2017 · 09:30 pm

Readers’ comments: We middle-class Hindus are not aggressive – we are now assertive

Scroll

· May 28, 2017 · 08:30 pm

How traditional Kashmiri architecture was designed to withstand even severe tremors

Selina Sen

· May 26, 2017 · 11:30 am

‘Some of the hate mail is chilling’: Historian Audrey Truschke on the backlash to her Aurangzeb book

Audrey Truschke

· May 25, 2017 · 08:00 am

From the Vedic age to the Mughals and the Raj: The colourful history of alcohol consumption in India

Mrinal Pande

· May 22, 2017 · 12:30 pm