History
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A painting of Akbar in a drunken brawl is a history lesson in manliness and kingship
Kamayani Sharma
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Bangladesh: In the burning of the Bangabandhu Museum, embers of a multilayered history
Naeem Mohaiemen
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A new book reconstructs the history of the Indian peoples from where it really began: Africa
Alan Machado
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How gender worked in Indian religious communities from early British rule till the late 20th century
Tanika Sarkar
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‘The Lion and the Lily’: Ira Mukhoty’s new book on Awadh history resurrects Nawab Begum, Bahu Begum
Rana Safvi
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How the Indian freedom struggle inspired a future Sri Lankan president
Ajay Kamalakaran
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Why the last king of Kandy had to spend his final years in an Indian fort
Ajay Kamalakaran
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How the mango became a component of welfare and economic policies for kings in India
Sopan Joshi
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The only Indian high schools that teach Aristotle and Plato
Adhiraj Parthasarathy Saurabh Seth
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What led to the 1929 Lahore Conspiracy Case, where Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, and Rajguru were on trial?
Aparna Vaidik
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How a hockey club helped Punjabi immigrants integrate into Canadian society
Ajay Kamalakaran
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Podcast: What does history say about how Mumbai changed and stayed the same over the past 200 years?
Dinyar Patel
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Remembering P Thankappan Nair (1933-2024), the historian-archivist-bibliographer of Kolkata
Sujaan Mukherjee
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A short history of how India became a global powerhouse in hockey in the 1920s
Ajay Kamalakaran
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‘Hockey rajahs’: When Dhyan Chand’s India cast a spell on Australia
Ajay Kamalakaran
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How poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan coined the term ‘Videsh Mantralaya’ (which impressed PM Nehru)
Kallol Bhattacharjee
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Why these travel posters sparked a fiery debate between Indian and British legislators in the 1930s
Kamayani Sharma
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Why Rabindranath Tagore saw great potential in Canada
Ajay Kamalakaran
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From a book on frauds: How a scandal surrounding a French royal led to the French Revolution
Vijay Narayan Govind
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How Indians subverted Canada’s racist immigration policy – with a little help from a Japanese firm
Ajay Kamalakaran