Why did Sumatran kings once build a Buddhist monastery in Tamil Nadu?

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Aug 03, 2022 · 11:30 am

When Arab traders made a fortune in pearl trade in Bombay

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Jul 30, 2022 · 11:30 am

This book recounts the near-forgotten tale of the Hindu Sahi kingdom in present day Afghanistan

Changez Jan

· Jul 29, 2022 · 08:30 am

Thank Mughal love for fruit for murabba’s popularity in India

Priyadarshini Chatterjee

· Jul 27, 2022 · 11:30 am

‘The book that changed me’: A historian’s take on Priya Satia’s ‘Time’s Monster’

Yves Rees, The Conversation

· Jul 19, 2022 · 05:30 pm

In 18th-century London, a ‘monster’ was stalking the streets and stabbing women

Maddy Smith

· Jul 19, 2022 · 01:30 pm

Why India signed a peace treaty with Thailand in 1946 – and how it set the tone for their relations

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Jul 19, 2022 · 11:30 am

The story of an Indian ayah who fought her British employers in court in 1826 – and won

Margaret Makepeace

· Jul 17, 2022 · 07:30 pm

How scientists solved the centuries-old mystery of Black Death’s origins

Philip Slavin, The Conversation

· Jul 16, 2022 · 11:30 pm

What the man in Pompeii clutching himself was actually doing when Vesuvius erupted 2,000 years ago

Esmé Louise James, The Conversation

· Jul 13, 2022 · 09:30 pm

‘A grand new palace of administration’: When Britain’s India Office got a new address in 1867

Margaret Makepeace

· Jul 11, 2022 · 07:30 pm

The delicious story of how Milkmaid became the byword for condensed milk in India

Priyadarshini Chatterjee

· Jul 11, 2022 · 11:30 am

2022 Karwaan Prize: Ten longlisted books that focus on the history of the Indian subcontinent

Scroll Staff

· Jul 09, 2022 · 12:30 pm

A Sinhalese missionary’s quest to reclaim the Mahabodhi Temple in Bodh Gaya for Buddhists

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Jul 09, 2022 · 11:30 am

A remarkably opulent country: Observations of the first American to write a book on India

Anu Kumar

· Jul 06, 2022 · 11:30 am

Watch: A new rendition of Moonlight Sonata, arranged by musician AR Rahman

Scroll Staff

· Jun 27, 2022 · 04:45 pm

Aanchal Malhotra’s ‘In the Language of Remembering’ gives voice to the pain of leaving ‘home’ behind

Prerna Vij

· Jun 25, 2022 · 08:30 am

Amid global warming, Bangladesh’s historic coastal mosques stare at an uncertain future

Mosabber Hossain, Thomson Reuters Foundation

· Jun 12, 2022 · 09:30 pm

In Elizabethan England, a law that made it illegal to let anybody starve led to economic gains

Simon Szreter, The Conversation

· Jun 08, 2022 · 11:30 pm

The story of Gertrude Emerson, the globe-trotting adventurer who made India her home

Anu Kumar

· May 28, 2022 · 11:30 am