Slaver’s Bay: The little-known history of Dutch slave trade in a small town in Tamil Nadu

Vinita Govindarajan

· Aug 29, 2017 · 11:30 am

‘A thousand-year relationship’: Ambassador Nirupama Rao traces the ties between India and China

Nirupama Rao

· Aug 23, 2017 · 07:30 pm

Paintings capture the life of an English doctor’s family in Lucknow during the British Raj

Malini Roy

· Aug 22, 2017 · 08:30 pm

This epic saga of a Kerala port is as much history as it is a work of expansive imagination

Jael Silliman

· Aug 19, 2017 · 08:30 am

Finally, a tantalising YA book (for adults too) that uses archaeology to recount Indian history

Anu Kumar

· Aug 12, 2017 · 10:30 am

A 53-foot scroll tells the story of the 1857 mutiny (from the British perspective)

Swati Chattopadhyay

· Aug 11, 2017 · 07:30 pm

In Bengal, the bond of Rakhi once symbolised eternal protection – between Hindus and Muslims

Deepanjan Ghosh

· Aug 07, 2017 · 11:30 am

What Malay works from Patani tell us about the literary and cultural heritage of Southeast Asia

Annabel Gallop

· Aug 06, 2017 · 08:30 pm

How the humble potato fuelled the rise of liberal capitalism

Rebecca Earle, The Conversation

· Aug 05, 2017 · 08:30 pm

Identity politics: Why Pakistan has erased Kautilya from its consciousness

Saif Tahir

· Aug 04, 2017 · 08:30 pm

Why Swami Vivekananda had to treat Sister Nivedita harshly (he was committed to celibacy)

Reba Som

· Aug 03, 2017 · 08:30 am

Why World War I cultivated an obsession with insects

Rachel Murray, The Conversation

· Jul 31, 2017 · 11:30 pm

The Lost City: These monuments are a reminder that Kolkata has abandoned many of its heroes

Deepanjan Ghosh

· Jul 31, 2017 · 11:30 am

Thucydides’s trap: Is war inevitable as a rising China threatens the United States’ dominance?

Börje Ljunggren

· Jul 29, 2017 · 09:30 pm

A guide to jianzi, a Chinese game with a shuttlecock (but no racket)

Ching Yuet Tang

· Jul 27, 2017 · 11:30 pm

From valuable friends to impure evil: How the Muslim world’s opinion of dogs changed

Alan Mikhail

· Jul 23, 2017 · 11:30 am

In photos: From ornate to simple, bindings on manuscripts from Tipu Sultan’s court

Ursula Sims-Williams

· Jul 19, 2017 · 08:30 pm

How Ramachandra Guha came to write ‘India After Gandhi’, the first popular post-1947 history

Ramachandra Guha

· Jul 18, 2017 · 08:30 am

Strings attached: A short history of the Western classical guitar in India

Kuldeep Barve

· Jul 16, 2017 · 11:30 am

Ancient ruins keep being ‘discovered’, but were they ever really lost?

Christopher Begley

· Jul 13, 2017 · 09:30 pm