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How a statist vision of development has brought Andaman's tribals close to extinction
Pankaj Sekhsaria
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Readers' comments: Scroll.in's articles do not touch upon the nuances of the meat ban issue
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The evolution of the fashion magazine: From publications for ‘virtuous virgins’ to ‘Vogue’
Rachel Brett
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Transfer of archaeologist from history-defining Sangam era site leads to uproar in Tamil Nadu
Sruthisagar Yamunan
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A photographer’s deep dive into India’s stepwells: ‘It was like discovering a new galaxy’
Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri
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From murders to drunken brawls: A 'black book' of the misdemeanours of East India Company employees
Margaret Makepeace
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RBI governor quits, defying government diktat. Successor complies. The year? 1957
TCA Srinivasa Raghavan
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Glimpses of a book on the Americas, published by the Ottoman Empire, that costs as much as a house
Michael Erdman
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Tracing the history of the Book of Esther and Jewish festival Purim
Ilana Tahan
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A brief history of why most Indian women's clothes don't have pockets
Scroll Staff
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Watch: This video celebrates the fascinating (and cruel) history of chocolate
Scroll Staff
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The untold story of Sindh's Umerkot, a town torn apart by Indo-Pak wars
Vaqar Ahmed
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Could lessons from London's killer fog help clear the air in India and China?
Peter Thorsheim
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Meet the (almost) invisible man of India's independence movement
Vappala Balachandran
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Watch: Britain has 'historical amnesia,' says Shashi Tharoor, on the British Empire in India
Scroll Staff
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The 'Arthaśāstra' is a manual of statecraft. It is neither a Hindu nor a moral treatise
Ananya Vajpeyi
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Denis Compton free-kick and a PK Banerjee-led Subroto Cup team: a brief history of Shillong football
Arka Bhattacharya
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History (and myth) show how India's women heroes broke with tradition to leave their homes
Ira Mukhoty
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Why a writer, poet and teacher wanted to turn into a tree
Sumana Roy
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A brief history of Polari, a language for gay men, and its curious afterlife
Paul Baker, The Conversation