History
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In photos: How Gurugram’s now-demolished Kaman Sarai helps residents reimagine their city
Tsomo Wangchuk Nishita Bannerjee
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Why the Portuguese administrators in India tried to stop the handover of Bombay to the British
Luis Dias
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How the French meddled in the 15th century English civil wars
Gordon McKelvie, The Conversation
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How early Australian settlers used maps to show colonial superiority over indigenous people
Imogen Wegman, The Conversation
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Watch: On Jawaharlal Nehru’s death anniversary, a look back at glimpses from his final journey
Scroll Staff
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Long before The Great Khali and WWE, there were Basanta Singh and Gobar Goho
Anu Kumar
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This biography of Lucknow dwells on its past to tell stories perilously close to being forgotten
Mehru Jaffer
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Is there such a thing as Indian Science Fiction? This book tries to identify some common elements
Sumit Bardhan
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This book charts a history of India through the stories of its paper currencies over the centuries
Kaushik Jayaram
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A Belgian farmer accidentally annexed France by moving a rock. What does it say about borders?
Imogen Wegman, The Conversation
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Watch: Archaeologists explain what handprints discovered in a cave from Maya civilisation could mean
Scroll Staff
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Memories of my father Faiz Ahmed Faiz and our simple dal-chawal meals
Moneeza Hashmi
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Tracing the overlapping lives of my great-grandfather and one of the heroes of the Bombay Plague
Luis Dias
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In Egypt, archaeologists have made a discovery as important as the finding of Tutankhamen’s tomb
Anna M Kotarba-Morley, The Conversation
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Long before The Great Khali and WWE, there were Basanta Singh and Gobar Goho
Anu Kumar
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Was the decision to stop publishing six obscure Dr Seuss racist titles an erasure of history?
Monica Eileen Patterson, The Conversation
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This book recounts the lives of Dalit leaders, many of them half-forgotten like Jogendranath Mandal
Sudarshan Ramabadran Guru Prakash Paswan
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What impact did the Sikh Gurus have on the empires of Sikh kings?
Priya Atwal
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Watch: Archaeologists discover 3,000-year-old ‘lost golden city’ in Egypt
Scroll Staff
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This book visits the sites of India’s civilisations to reimagine 4,000 years of history
Rajmohan Gandhi