History

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
It makes for a good story, but the cover-up of Britain’s treatment of the Mau Mau was exaggerated

Philip Murphy, The Conversation
· Oct 18, 2016 · 03:30 pm
Think entertainment is violent today? The Victorians were much, much more gory

Rosalind Crone, The Conversation
· Oct 17, 2016 · 11:30 pm