How are history books written for school-going readers in India? Here is an example

Roshen Dalal

· Jan 17, 2023 · 03:30 pm

A group of young friends and their pet elephant meet Prince Jahangir as a boy in this new book

Shruti Garodia Archana Garodia Gupta

· Jan 03, 2023 · 11:30 am

A historian studies the women of the Middle Ages to know why they were kept out of popular history

Janina Ramirez

· Jan 02, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Amid Mughal-Maratha battles, an East India Company man reaped the benefits of political neutrality

Anu Kumar

· Dec 31, 2022 · 11:30 am

What do medieval manuscripts tell us about cats?

Madeleine S Killacky, The Conversation

· Dec 27, 2022 · 11:30 pm

How the world discovered chocolate

Kathryn Sampeck, The Conversation

· Dec 26, 2022 · 11:30 pm

The story of the Indian immigrant who catalysed the New Zealand gold rush but died in near penury

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Dec 24, 2022 · 11:30 am

Amar Farooqui: A historian’s indelible legacy and lessons to last a lifetime

Sarath Pillai

· Dec 19, 2022 · 11:30 am

How an Irish poet and playwright became a part of India’s cultural mosaic

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Dec 17, 2022 · 11:30 am

Why a plan to link India and Burma with one of the world’s most scenic railroads didn’t work out

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Dec 10, 2022 · 11:30 am

A new biography visits the life of Durgawati, warrior queen of the tribal kingdom of Garha Mandla

Nandini Sengupta

· Dec 08, 2022 · 08:30 am

Sponsian had been dismissed as a ‘fake’ Roman emperor. My research shows he was real

Paul N Pearson, The Conversation

· Dec 07, 2022 · 11:30 pm

Kanad Sinha, Audrey Truschke, Christophe Jaffrelot, Pratinav Anil win the 2022 Karwaan Book Award

Scroll Staff

· Dec 06, 2022 · 02:21 pm

Watch: Bansilalpet, a 17th century stepwell in Hyderabad, has been restored meticulously

Scroll Staff

· Dec 06, 2022 · 12:50 pm

How Indo-Persian, the language of cosmopolitan India for six centuries, fell into decline

Adhiraj Parthasarathy Mohammad Dawood

· Dec 04, 2022 · 08:30 am

Watch: Satirist Urvish Kothari explores ways in which India’s history can be rewritten

Scroll Staff

· Nov 29, 2022 · 06:44 pm

Remembering the ‘Indian Titanic’ that was sunk by the Japanese

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Nov 29, 2022 · 11:30 am

P Sainath’s new book brings stories of the footsoldiers of India’s freedom movement

P. Sainath

· Nov 28, 2022 · 08:30 am

How Francis Fukuyama’s idea ‘the end of history’ may have been misinterpreted

Chris Fleming, The Conversation

· Nov 25, 2022 · 05:30 pm

Historian Nayanjot Lahiri on encountering Indian emperor Ashoka in a small coastal town in Thailand

Nayanjot Lahiri

· Nov 25, 2022 · 08:30 am