HIstory
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Fiction: Jadu’s parents are killed in the violence between the East India Company and Bengal’s Nawab
Madhurima Vidyarthi
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Why Indians were discouraged from migrating to Cuba in the early 20th century
Ajay Kamalakaran
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What a 1944 tally of foreigners revealed about wartime India
Ajay Kamalakaran
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‘Nalanda’: Insights into ancient Indian practices of debate and argument
Saurabh Mishra
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How I help my students understand the links between complex medieval history and today’s India
Chanthu S
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Why newly-independent India barred an official from accepting a Cuban honour
Ajay Kamalakaran
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From history: How Marthanda Varma of Travancore fended off Europeans who coveted his kingdom
Pushpa Palat Raghu Palat
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Indian history for children: From 1200 to 1850, a brief history of the North Eastern states
Rudrangshu Mukherjee Shobita Punja Toby Sinclair
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NCERT textbook describes Mughal ‘brutalities’, says no one should be blamed for past
Scroll Staff
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When a unique university on a ship sailed up to India for ‘cultural immersion’
Anu Kumar
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Why ‘Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi’ is the perfect show for an India afraid of the future
Iftikar Ahmed
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Fiction: When the enigmatic artist Mira dies suddenly, her nurse, Sona, comes under suspicion
Alka Joshi
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Kumkum Roy, professor of Ancient History, recollects her days as an MA student at JNU, Delhi
Kumkum Roy
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A look at 15th-century India through the eyes of a Genoan merchant
Ajay Kamalakaran
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For historian Jim Masselos (1940-2025), Mumbai was a city that was both his archive and his muse
Prashant Kidambi
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A new book asks what made Japan Westernise rapidly during the Meiji era in the late 19th century
Lesley Downer
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From the biography: How freedom fighter MC Davar tried to prevent the partition of India
Praveen Davar
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Scroll Adda: ‘Secular forces fixate on footnotes, Hindutva gets how Indians deal with history’
Aryan Mahtta Raghav Kakkar Shoaib Daniyal
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How independent Bangladesh introduced made-in-India one taka notes to end use of Pakistani currency
Manash Ghosh
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A new book recounts the formation of the Berlin Indian Independence Committee in 1914
Rana Preet Gill