HIstory
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How a Hindu temple was renovated by a Muslim and a Sufi shrine revamped by a Sikh in Pakistan
Haroon Khalid
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Watch: Journey of the treadmill from a prison punishment to a self-inflicted one
Scroll Staff
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June 25: Even if you forget the Emergency of 1975, these seven books will remind you
Devapriya Roy
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These two books reveal how Tamil enterprise and Bombay merchants helped build business in India
Sarojesh Mukherjee
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To aid its global rise, China is reconstructing its history to show itself as peace-loving
Suisheng Zhao
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Indian Railways has long thrived in the popular imagination. Is this cultural story about to end?
Huzaifa Omair Siddiqi
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‘Facts are not truth’: Hilary Mantel explains why fantasy must inhabit historical fiction
Michael Durrant, The Conversation
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Everyone can now read this breathtaking eyewitness account of the 1857 mutiny
Zahir Dehlvi
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Readers’ comments: ‘Kashmir belongs equally to Pandits who were driven out, Harsh Mander’
Scroll
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Royal companions and warriors: How elephants have been depicted in Asia’s history and mythology
Sud Chonchirdsin
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Readers’ comments: We middle-class Hindus are not aggressive – we are now assertive
Scroll
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How traditional Kashmiri architecture was designed to withstand even severe tremors
Selina Sen
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‘Some of the hate mail is chilling’: Historian Audrey Truschke on the backlash to her Aurangzeb book
Audrey Truschke
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From the Vedic age to the Mughals and the Raj: The colourful history of alcohol consumption in India
Mrinal Pande
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How 12th century Persian poet Omar Khayyám inspired a hedonistic counterculture in Victorian England
Roman Krznaric
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Now in Mumbai: The fabulous story of the Indian elephant who walked from Lisbon to Vienna in 1551
Mridula Chari
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Nobody in India is as mad about mangoes as the Sheherwali Jains of Bengal
Priyadarshini Chatterjee
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How a furniture designer’s love for Ahmedabad helped popularise Indian crafts in the US
Anu Kumar
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Why has the idea of civilisation become a battle between the West and the rest?
Ramin Jahanbegloo
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In photos: Glimpses of 16th-century Persia through exquisite miniature art
The Public Domain Review