History
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Did the Namboodiris change Malayalam to add Sanskrit elements to the language?
Peggy Mohan
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Watch: On this date 125 years ago, the first modern Olympic Games were held at Athens
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Watch: The world’s deepest shipwreck, from 1944, has been mapped for the first time
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Watch: 22 Egyptian mummies transferred to new resting place in ‘Pharaoh’s Golden Parade’
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How harpists (including one from Benaras) were portrayed in the tales of the Buddha’s former lives
Maria Kekki
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‘I tried to move away from a nationalist hagiography of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre’: VN Datta
Nonica Datta VN Datta
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Pomp and power: A rare glimpse of life in the court of India’s last Mughal emperor
Munshi Faizuddin
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Watch: Historian Ramachandra Guha on the joy of foraging through libraries, archives for information
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How a French governor in Bengal wanted to drive the English out from India in the 18th century
Robert Ivermee
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‘Sambhaji’: This Marathi novel on the life of Shivaji’s son is now out in English translation
Vishwas Patil
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A ‘new’ poetry find has left lovers of Sappho thrilled, but its backstory may have been fabricated
C Michael Sampson, The Conversation
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What would human history look like if told through our relationships with animals?
Trisha Gupta
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‘Delhi in Historical Perspectives’: Three different pasts of the city in all its multicultural glory
Mohammad Asim Siddiqui
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What the stories of the people who live at India’s borders tell us about the country’s history
Suchitra Vijayan
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This study of archaeologist MN Deshpande’s work highlights the integrity and zeal of a true scholar
Trisha Gupta
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In her new book, Audrey Truschke examines Sanskrit works on India’s Muslim history
Audrey Truschke
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Watch: Was this how the Kailashanath temple at Ellora was carved out of the rock face?
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What the ruins of the original Nalanda university tell us about an old civilisation of India
Namit Arora
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If a pope’s corpse can be put on trial in 9th century, why can’t an ex-president be impeached today?
Frederik Pedersen, The Conversation
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Watch: Archaeologists are unearthing the lost world of the Mayan civilisation with lasers in the sky
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