A new book offers detailed historical accounts of the Sultans of Oman in the 19th century

Seema Alavi

· Jun 07, 2023 · 08:30 am

Ranajit Guha (1923-2023): The thinker and historian was also an idealistic political activist

Somak Mukherjee

· Jun 04, 2023 · 07:30 am

Non-fiction books in June: Histories, memoirs, and biographies for a new month of reading

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· Jun 03, 2023 · 03:30 pm

Historical fiction: Can Begum Hazrat Mahal’s rebel army fight the British and secure Awadh’s future?

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· May 30, 2023 · 05:30 pm

How did the Indian langur end up in a prehistoric mural in Greece?

Kamayani Sharma

· May 30, 2023 · 11:30 am

On a propaganda tour in India, the first Black Ivy League professor found complexities and paradoxes

Anu Kumar

· May 27, 2023 · 11:30 am

This book tells the story of the Tamil queen who led an army of women against the East India Company

Shubendra

· May 25, 2023 · 08:30 am

Remembering the first major Carnatic music concert in the United States

Ajay Kamalakaran

· May 24, 2023 · 11:30 am

Carrots and sticks: How food was used to oppress Indian sailors on colonial ships

Priyadarshini Chatterjee

· May 20, 2023 · 11:30 am

Podcast: The bitter truth about the sugar industries of pre-modern India and their global legacy

Dinyar Patel

· May 19, 2023 · 11:30 am

Watch: First full-size 3D scans of The Titanic provides views never seen after the shipwreck

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· May 18, 2023 · 11:12 am

A new book revives works of a mapmaker who depicted in 1846 how Shahjahanabad had evolved

Swapna Liddle

· May 15, 2023 · 08:30 am

An Indian sanyasi’s myth-busting account of Tibet

Ajay Kamalakaran

· May 13, 2023 · 11:30 am

Fiction: How did brothers Hakka and Bukka Raya establish the Vijayanagara empire?

Buchi Ramagopal

· May 12, 2023 · 05:30 pm

‘It’d be madness to think it was all sword and fire’: Vivekananda on the long Muslim rule in India

Govind Krishnan V

· May 11, 2023 · 08:30 am

What is the future of the museum? Romila Thapar on why the past needs to be understood in context

Romila Thapar

· May 03, 2023 · 08:30 am

The story of the charming British conman who duped Bombay jewellers and still walked free

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Apr 29, 2023 · 11:30 am

‘Life here flows on like the Tungabhadra’: The multi-faith and multi-ethnic identity of Hampi

Kishalay Bhattacharjee

· Apr 27, 2023 · 08:30 am

How food came to the rescue of the British in India

Priyadarshini Chatterjee

· Apr 26, 2023 · 11:30 am

How an American helped revive Buddhism in Sri Lanka after moving to India

Anu Kumar

· Apr 22, 2023 · 11:30 am