HIstory
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When an American woman briefly became a spokesperson for anti-casteism in India
Anu Kumar
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Fiction: Anjum Hasan’s new, darkly funny novel explores the conflicting views of the past today
Anjum Hasan
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A new book recounts how princely states were coaxed, coerced, or bludgeoned into joining India
John Zubrzycki
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Hard work, sacrifice, gender: What the visceral afterlife of the Partition in India reveals
Pranav Kohli
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What a tiny difference in two very similar portraits of a sultan tells us about 16th-century India
Kamayani Sharma
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Can graves be an important key for understanding the ideology of the Indus Valley Civilisation?
Akinori Uesugi
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‘Sawaneh-i Dehli’: An important book that shows the hold of colonialism on the minds of its subjects
Mohammad Asim Siddiqui
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Sam Higginbottom wanted to help India. So he devoted his life to helping its farmers
Anu Kumar
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How Gujarati merchants helped Zambia attain independence
Ajay Kamalakaran
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New in nonfiction: The working class and labour unions’ participation in the Indian freedom movement
David Hardiman
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How some philosophers from Oxford University brought modernity to philosophy
Andrew Milne, The Conversation
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Spy vs Seditionist: What British agents thought of Indian revolutionaries in Japan
Ajay Kamalakaran
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A robot in a 400-year-old painting of Jahangir is a lesson in how rulers project global power
Kamayani Sharma
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How a stint in Bombay helped Georg Bühler become one of the most prominent Indologists in Europe
Ajay Kamalakaran
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A new book offers detailed historical accounts of the Sultans of Oman in the 19th century
Seema Alavi
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Ranajit Guha (1923-2023): The thinker and historian was also an idealistic political activist
Somak Mukherjee
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Non-fiction books in June: Histories, memoirs, and biographies for a new month of reading
Sayari Debnath
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Historical fiction: Can Begum Hazrat Mahal’s rebel army fight the British and secure Awadh’s future?
Malathi Ramachandran
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How did the Indian langur end up in a prehistoric mural in Greece?
Kamayani Sharma
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On a propaganda tour in India, the first Black Ivy League professor found complexities and paradoxes
Anu Kumar