The Grand Anicut shows historical novels need not be slowed down by immaculate research

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When a small Sikh community thrived in an Iranian border town

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Emmeline da Cunha: Remembering Goa’s first female doctor who had a brief but intense medical career

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· Dec 05, 2021 · 11:30 am

How a Hungarian scholar became the founder of modern Tibetology after reaching India

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· Dec 04, 2021 · 11:30 am

In searching for my ancestor Miguel of Mazagon, I found his role in a key Anglo-Portuguese deal

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· Nov 28, 2021 · 01:30 pm

‘Human nature doesn’t change’: Madhulika Liddle on the challenges of writing historical fiction

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Watch: 3000-year-old Avenue of Sphinxes unveiled at Karnak Temple in Egypt in a grand ceremony

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Pilgrimages, conflicts and naked women: A Russian merchant’s impressions of 15th-century India

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The legend of the Indian prince who is the forefather of all Cambodians

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· Nov 21, 2021 · 11:30 am

The science of resurrecting the ‘dead’ has a creepy history

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· Nov 15, 2021 · 11:30 pm

How Nicoló Manucci, the Venetian who settled in India, saw and reported incidents of ‘Sati’

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· Nov 15, 2021 · 08:30 am

How historian Vikram Sampath uses decolonisation rhetoric to make Hindu domination sound reasonable

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Watch: On Abul Kalam Azad’s 133rd birth anniversary, remembering some of his sayings

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· Nov 11, 2021 · 03:19 pm

AI and deepfakes are bringing history to life – but at a steep moral cost

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· Nov 06, 2021 · 11:30 pm

Podcast: How Mumbai’s working-class women helped create a city that is safe and open-minded

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· Nov 04, 2021 · 11:30 am

Brexit fish wars: Britain has been fighting over territorial waters for centuries

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· Nov 03, 2021 · 11:30 pm

Watch: 2,700-year-old wine press, carved directly into a mountain, discovered in Iraq

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· Nov 02, 2021 · 03:30 pm

The world’s first professional acrobats were flipping through West Asia 4,000 years ago

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· Nov 01, 2021 · 11:30 pm

‘Head held high. Not pride, but need to survive’: Three poems from the libretto of ‘Giraffe Humming’

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· Oct 29, 2021 · 08:30 am

An examination guide from 1868 shows what it took to join the Bombay Native Infantry

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· Oct 24, 2021 · 07:30 pm