HIstory
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Podcast: The bitter truth about the sugar industries of pre-modern India and their global legacy
Dinyar Patel
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Watch: First full-size 3D scans of The Titanic provides views never seen after the shipwreck
Scroll Staff
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A new book revives works of a mapmaker who depicted in 1846 how Shahjahanabad had evolved
Swapna Liddle
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An Indian sanyasi’s myth-busting account of Tibet
Ajay Kamalakaran
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Fiction: How did brothers Hakka and Bukka Raya establish the Vijayanagara empire?
Buchi Ramagopal
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‘It’d be madness to think it was all sword and fire’: Vivekananda on the long Muslim rule in India
Govind Krishnan V
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What is the future of the museum? Romila Thapar on why the past needs to be understood in context
Romila Thapar
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The story of the charming British conman who duped Bombay jewellers and still walked free
Ajay Kamalakaran
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‘Life here flows on like the Tungabhadra’: The multi-faith and multi-ethnic identity of Hampi
Kishalay Bhattacharjee
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How food came to the rescue of the British in India
Priyadarshini Chatterjee
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How an American helped revive Buddhism in Sri Lanka after moving to India
Anu Kumar
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Interview: ‘Bhagat Singh is an important symbol of resistance against injustice and oppression’
Rohan Datta
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Long before ‘Shree 420’ and ‘Awaara’, KA Abbas’s humanity was visible in a travelogue from China
Ajay Kamalakaran
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How Indians in Bukhara became chess pieces in the early 20th century Anglo-Russian rivalry
Ajay Kamalakaran
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Virchand Dharmasey (1935-2023): A self-taught scholar who built a priceless repository of knowledge
Murali Ranganathan
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‘We Measure the Earth with our Bodies’: Tsering Yangzom Lama’s novel makes us read exile with hope
Saloni Sharma
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‘A New History of India’: A book conceived with grand intentions that succeeds occasionally
Nandan Kaushik
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S Irfan Habib: ‘Maulana Abul Kalam Azad espoused composite nationalism all his life’
Majid Maqbool
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Out to document biodiversity, a zoologist ended up giving a glimpse of Andaman and Nicobar’s jails
Ajay Kamalakaran
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This revered revolutionary was convinced that Bulgarians were descendants of Indians
Ajay Kamalakaran