The day 385 years ago when bananas made their British debut

Rebecca Earle, The Conversation

· Apr 12, 2018 · 11:30 pm

100 years on, remembering the Hindu-German conspiracy to violently overthrow the British Raj

Anu Kumar

· Apr 10, 2018 · 11:30 am

Who left these ancient sculptures of horsemen around the Pir Panjal range?

Prashant Mathawan

· Apr 06, 2018 · 11:30 am

A unique boat museum in Kolkata pays tribute to Bengal’s rivers and their forgotten traditions

Deepanjan Ghosh

· Apr 02, 2018 · 11:30 am

Photos: Treatises on Hindustani music from Akbar’s reign that shaped music theory for centuries

Katherine Butler Schofield

· Mar 31, 2018 · 08:30 pm

75 years since the Bengal famine: How much was Churchill’s bias to blame for the death of millions?

Madhushree Mukerjee

· Mar 30, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Mary Beard’s new book traces the history of modern day templates of misogyny (and they go far back)

Lopa Ghosh

· Mar 25, 2018 · 07:00 am

For India’s docile media, a lesson in press freedom from 18th century Calcutta

Anu Kumar

· Mar 15, 2018 · 11:30 am

India should draft a fresh secular code applicable to all citizens, writes historian Romila Thapar

Romila Thapar

· Mar 14, 2018 · 05:53 pm

The quest to preserve the ‘Lotus Sutra’, Buddha’s final teaching on salvation

Mélodie Doumy

· Mar 10, 2018 · 09:30 pm

‘In new India, anyone who shreds a few posters at the crossroads becomes a historian’: Ravish Kumar

Ravish Kumar

· Mar 09, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Video: This is believed to be the world’s oldest message in a bottle. What does it say?

Reuters

· Mar 09, 2018 · 01:34 pm

Video: Why was March 8 chosen as the day to commemorate International Women’s Day?

Scroll Staff

· Mar 08, 2018 · 07:00 am

‘The Russian-style British regime in India is doomed’: What Vladimir Lenin wrote in 1908

Scroll Staff

· Mar 07, 2018 · 05:18 pm

As newly independent India set about becoming a democracy, the press played a crucial role

Ornit Shani

· Mar 07, 2018 · 08:30 am

India's fundamentalist government is rewriting history (but it has a millions-of-years-old problem)

Girish Shahane

· Mar 07, 2018 · 08:00 am

Sunder Nursery gives Delhi a beautifully restored green space – and a template for heritage

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Mar 01, 2018 · 02:30 pm

Illustrated manuscripts show what the Year of the Dog means in Chinese, Japanese and Thai traditions

Curators of East Asian and South East Asian Collections

· Feb 27, 2018 · 09:30 pm

In rural Bengal, an indefatigable relic hunter has uncovered a hidden chapter of history

Sebanti Sarkar

· Feb 19, 2018 · 11:30 am

What a fossil revolution can tell us about the history of ‘big data’

David Sepkoski, Aeon

· Feb 15, 2018 · 11:30 pm