History
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Quiz: Can you answer these questions based on an Indian history book for children?
Archana Garodia Gupta Shruti Garodia
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From flying machines to robots in royal courts, science fiction has been around since medieval times
Carl Kears, The Conversation James Paz, The Conversation
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A teenager traces her Indian great-great grandmother’s life as an indentured labourer in Fiji
Aanchal Malhotra
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Protector of Brahmins or peasant king? Why a historian of Shivaji is on Sanatan Sanstha’s hitlist
Shoaib Daniyal
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Bourbons and Begums: How the descendants of French royals played a vital role in Bhopal’s history
Indira Iyengar
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British Indian postcards had more in common with Instagram posts than we realise
Mahima Jain
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If not in history books, here is a chance to read of the maritime king, Rajendra Chola I, in fiction
Urmi Chanda-Vaz
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Sayyid Ahmad Khan’s 19th-century books on the pre-1857 monuments of Delhi are now in English
Sayyid Ahmad Khan Rana Safvi
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‘Note by Note’: The story of each year of independent India is told through film songs in this book
Sarah Farooqui
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Floating down the hippie trail: This book tells the history of a heady time but lacks colour
Ajoy Bose
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‘Rebel Sultans’: Manu Pillai’s history of Deccan empires goes well beyond us-versus-them stories
Vivek Menezes
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In Pakistan, appreciation of Indus Valley Civilisation ties in with attempts to erase its Hindu past
Haroon Khalid
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Kerala floods: The 2018 disaster brings back stories of destruction (and rehabilitation) from 1924
Manu S Pillai
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How an Indian Jew helped the Nawab of Sidi rule over the Muslim state of Janjira
Anuradha Bhattacharjee
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Your Morning Fix, Special Episode: Writing the Indian Constitution, amidst Partition’s bloodbath
Smitha Nair
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A photographer turns his lens (and public attention) towards India’s lesser-known monuments
Deepanjan Ghosh
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If dastangoi survives today in India, it’s partly because of this historic place in Uttar Pradesh
Tarana Khan
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An artist reanimates the untold stories of Sikhs in Canada through digital collages
Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri
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The Higginbothams story: How a sea cadet from Kerala set up India’s oldest book chain in 1844
Anu Kumar
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‘Mission Critical’: How the CIA and KGB pumped propaganda into India during the Cold War
Vikram Sood