Watch: N Sankariah, one of India’s last living freedom fighters, turns 100

Scroll Staff

· Jul 15, 2021 · 04:19 pm

A new examination of Sambhaji’s life asks if he lived up to his father Shivaji’s reputation

Medha Deshmukh Bhaskaran

· Jul 14, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘Asoca’: Irwin Allan Sealy’s new novel is a modern reconstruction of the life of Emperor Ashoka

Irwin Allan Sealy

· Jul 13, 2021 · 05:30 pm

How to dispose of the dead? This and many other controversies feature in this history of the Parsis

Coomi Kapoor

· Jul 13, 2021 · 08:30 am

What the connections of sacredness with valour and identity in the Sikh tradition reveal

Harjot Oberoi

· Jul 12, 2021 · 08:30 am

‘The Horde’: Marie Favereau rewrites the conventional history of the Mongol conquerors

Dinyar Patel

· Jul 11, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Why many still believe that broken mirrors cause bad luck – a superstition from Roman times?

Barry Markovsky, The Conversation

· Jul 10, 2021 · 11:30 pm

India’s national archives might go partly out of reach for writers. What happens to their holdings?

Narayani Basu

· Jul 09, 2021 · 08:30 am

Euro 2020: The strange history of the off-side rule and does football really need it?

Adam Powley, The Conversation

· Jul 07, 2021 · 04:00 pm

A new history of the Sikhs charts the lives of the ten Gurus of the faith with curated stories

Sarbpreet Singh

· Jul 01, 2021 · 08:30 am

This social and family history from Kashmir goes beyond the violence and the politics

Khem Lata Wakhlu

· Jun 30, 2021 · 08:30 am

Watch: Archaeologist discovers 6,000-year-old island settlement off the coast of Croatia

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· Jun 29, 2021 · 11:00 am

This book asks what history tells us about the unique identity of Maharashtra and the Marathi Manoos

Girish Kuber

· Jun 29, 2021 · 08:30 am

A new extinct human species found in China may replace Neanderthals as our closest relatives

Anthony Sinclair, The Conversation

· Jun 28, 2021 · 07:30 pm

This book imagines the life of Queen Ruupmati of Malwa, in (supposedly) her own words

Priyadarshi Thakur ‘Khayal’

· Jun 28, 2021 · 08:30 am

‘The Begum and the Dastan’: A novel that shows how to write history without condoning it

Isa Ayidh

· Jun 27, 2021 · 12:30 pm

In Sudan, shifting sand dunes threaten the world’s largest collection of pyramids

Ahmed Mutasim Abdalla Mahmoud, The Conversation

· Jun 26, 2021 · 09:30 pm

Amitav Ghosh on Priya Satia’s books: ‘History has given us tools for upending dominant narratives’

Amitav Ghosh

· Jun 26, 2021 · 08:30 am

Watch: Egyptian mummy put through CT scan to reveal what he looked like, how he lived and died

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· Jun 24, 2021 · 10:13 am

A Scottish graveyard in Kolkata reveals the untold stories of colonial women in India

Sayan Dey, The Conversation

· Jun 18, 2021 · 01:30 pm