Why did the world once believe that giraffes came from India?

Anu Kumar

· Dec 15, 2016 · 05:30 pm

The story of the other East India Company: a Dutch enterprise in Ceylon (gorgeous images alert)

Smriti Daniel

· Dec 11, 2016 · 12:30 pm

Watch: Are we using the wrong calendar to mark human history?

Scroll Staff

· Dec 09, 2016 · 02:00 pm

Gujarati sandals in Baghdad: Challenging a centuries-old text about how Islam came to India

Syed Nomanul Haq

· Nov 28, 2016 · 08:30 pm

15th century samosas, the Sonam Gupta mystery and the pick of Scroll.in stories from last week

Scroll Staff

· Nov 27, 2016 · 05:00 am

How Ottoman Turks depicted women of India and other parts of the world

Sunil Sharma

· Nov 22, 2016 · 07:30 pm

A research team solved the 1,000-year-old mystery of the Druze people’s origin – with a genetic GPS

Eran Elhaik, The Conversation

· Nov 17, 2016 · 11:30 pm

How a 2,700-year-old piece of papyrus super-charged the debate over UNESCO's stance on Jerusalem

Michael Langlois, The Conversation

· Nov 16, 2016 · 05:30 am

Why an ex-journalist chose to document his Dalit culture in a food book

Aakash Karkare

· Nov 15, 2016 · 11:30 am

These illustrated Persian fables owe their origin to India's Panchatantra

Ursula Sims-Williams

· Nov 11, 2016 · 08:30 pm

When British Merchant Navy housed Indian seamen in overcrowded and filthy lodgings

John O'Brian

· Nov 08, 2016 · 08:30 pm

Behind India's successful women architects are unconventional ideas and mothers-in-law

Maria Thomas, qz.com

· Nov 06, 2016 · 08:30 pm

Watch: The first billion people took 200,000 years. The next 6 billion came in just 200 years

Scroll Staff

· Nov 06, 2016 · 04:00 pm

It’s easy to see why the Right wanted this book about Indians’ beef-eating history to be banned

Satyavrat KK

· Nov 06, 2016 · 08:30 am

How the map of India was redrawn on the lines of language

Mridula Chari

· Nov 01, 2016 · 07:30 am

Watch: You can play as Mahatma Gandhi and lead India to religious victory in this video game

Scroll Staff

· Oct 31, 2016 · 01:00 pm

The story of an ayah from Raj-era India who was abandoned at London's King's Cross station with £1

Penny Brook and Margaret Makepeace

· Oct 30, 2016 · 08:30 pm

How the Ouija board got its sinister reputation

Joseph P. Laycock, The Conversation

· Oct 25, 2016 · 03:30 pm

An Icelander's autobiography offers glimpses of Danish rule in India

Lionel Knight

· Oct 23, 2016 · 03:30 pm

The first man on the moon was a Muslim warrior and other facts that India, Pakistan have been hiding

Nadeem F Paracha

· Oct 22, 2016 · 07:30 pm