History
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From the skies, an architect retraces a century-old survey of Ahmedabad’s City Walls
Robert Stephens
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How the Inkas governed, thrived and fell without a written alphabet
Christopher Given-Wilson, The Conversation
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Sex worker, con-woman, serial murderess: The story of Troilokya, who terrorised Calcutta in 1800s
Deepanjan Ghosh
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The Mughals were an integral part of India – so why are they being labelled foreigners?
Parvati Sharma
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How Gandhi avoided the pitfall of Aurobindo’s approach to civil resistance
David Hardiman
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Shells, songs and bombs: How Indians experienced World War I on the home front
George Morton-Jack
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How the last king of Indore left a mark on the world of style and the arts
Meera Ganapathi
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Jallianwala Bagh massacre: How Colonel Dyer exploited the planned gathering as a ‘gift of fortune’
Kishwar Desai
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How fake news may have shaped the future of a Tamil empire in medieval India
Aditya Iyengar
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What does a 21st century feminist do when transported to King Vidyadhar’s 11th-century court?
Jai Arjun Singh
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An imaginative biography of Jahangir shows how the distant past can be made intimately recognisable
Supriya Nair
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Why England should stop whitewashing its colonial past in its school history curriculum
Deana Heath, The Conversation
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How Jahangir fought his alcohol addiction and dealt with a threat posed by Akbar’s historian
Parvati Sharma
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Filtering history: Why Aurangzeb and Mahmud Ghazni are heroes in Pakistan but villains in India
Haroon Khalid
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Demonetisation failed in 1946 too but did not cause widespread distress like in 2016
Meera H Sanyal
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Did you know that the history of Gurgaon goes back 2,000 years?
Veena Talwar Oldenburg
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How did Maharana Pratap’s childhood prepare him to be a king? A new book looks beyond the battles
Rima Hooja
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As South Asia becomes a centre of geopolitics today, this book examines America’s historical role
Francis P Sempa
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Bhima Koregaon: Judicial commission shifts focus to contested history as hearings commence in Pune
Mridula Chari
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Glimpses of ‘Divan-i-Hijri’, a book of poems in the collection of Humayun’s wife Hamidah Banu
Ursula Sims-Williams