History
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What the Indus script, ‘discovered’ a hundred years ago, reveals about the ancient civilisation
Andrew Robinson
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For children: Heels, pigeons, betel leaf and everything else that tells stories of ancient India
Archana Garodia Gupta Shruti Garodia
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Remembering the journalist expelled from India for taking on the East India Company
Anu Kumar
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The Goan priest who helped save Catholicism in Sri Lanka
Ajay Kamalakaran
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How British artists painted Indian birds they had never seen
Kamayani Sharma
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A new book on Turkish history explores the era of the Ottoman Empire under Sultan Süleyman
Benjamin C Fortna
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Calcutta’s overlooked urban archives: How did directories and almanacks turn new year into history?
Devasis Chattopadhyay
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How the Cairo Fire of 1952 tested young India’s cautious foreign policy
Ajay Kamalakaran
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Indian flag history: How Pingali Venkayya designed one of the first versions of the tricolour
Navtej Sarna
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A bittersweet archive: The history of sohan halwa
Neha Vermani
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Why India waited two years before recognising Israel
Ajay Kamalakaran
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What Ceylon looked like through the eyes of KPS Menon
Ajay Kamalakaran
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What an intrepid English traveller saw in Balochistan in the late 19th century
Ajay Kamalakaran
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An academic tells the story of how his mother escaped Nazis to arrive at the historic Fergana Valley
Jonathan Gil Harris
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In his new book, Rana Dasgupta shows how imperial Britain hijacked successful Asian economies
Rana Dasgupta
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When India needed support, Venezuela stood firmly by its side
Ajay Kamalakaran
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A career forged in Calcutta journalism ended in disgrace for Sandford Arnot
Anu Kumar
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How an Indian dancer and psychic became sculptor Jacob Epstein’s muse
Anu Kumar
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‘The most beautiful sarae in Hindustan’: First impressions of princess Jahanara’s Begum ki Serai
Anoushka Jain
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Carriages, bazaars and colonial views: An American woman writer’s visit to 19th-century India
Ajay Kamalakaran