When the British failed to stop Tamil labourers from emigrating to Madagascar

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Dec 30, 2023 · 11:30 am

‘Historical understanding is always open’: Romila Thapar reflects on ‘truth’

Scroll Staff

· Dec 30, 2023 · 10:29 am

‘Modern Indians must go beyond the binaries of secular and religious’: Writer Chandan Gowda

Jayanth Kodkani

· Dec 24, 2023 · 01:30 pm

‘The History Teacher of Lahore’: Literature as witness and vehicle of change during difficult times

Saloni Sharma

· Dec 23, 2023 · 08:30 am

An American helped set up India’s first aircraft factory before he became a CIA spy

Anu Kumar

· Dec 20, 2023 · 11:30 am

This book tells the untold story of the outlawed separatist outfit, United Liberation Front of Asom

Rajeev Bhattacharyya

· Dec 15, 2023 · 09:50 am

How an opera set in India propelled the career of one of France’s greatest composers

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Dec 13, 2023 · 11:30 am

When a spiritual guru put the Indian government in a fix with a request for dual citizenship

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Dec 10, 2023 · 11:30 am

A new book suggests the first tools may have been invented by female Homo habilis to feed herself

Cat Bohannon

· Dec 06, 2023 · 01:30 pm

History reimagined: Condemned as a drunken wastrel, what was Bahadur Shah of Gujarat really like?

Kalpish Ratna

· Nov 30, 2023 · 05:30 pm

How a British spy operation dragged neutral Goa into the bloodshed of the Second World War

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Nov 28, 2023 · 11:30 am

Fakhr-ul-Masajid, Bengali Club, Lothian Cemetery: The wonders of Delhi that lie beyond Kashmiri Gate

Swapna Liddle

· Nov 28, 2023 · 08:30 am

Modern history: A new book goes back in time to examine how Kashmir’s Article 370 came to be

Harbans Singh

· Nov 24, 2023 · 08:30 am

Fiction: A British man and Indian woman’s marriage is affected by their nations’ turbulent histories

Achala Moulik

· Nov 14, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Why US and Japan chose Goa for a prisoner swap during World War II

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Nov 11, 2023 · 11:30 am

Rice, pickle, an occasional ice cream: What PT Usha’s diet consisted of at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Sohini Chattopadhyay

· Nov 09, 2023 · 08:30 am

Goa’s entry into the railway age was set in motion with an engineering marvel

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Nov 04, 2023 · 11:30 am

An innovative new biography of Emperor Ashoka reads his life from his edicts alone

Nandan S Kaushik

· Nov 04, 2023 · 08:30 am

How an American woman built one of India’s most prestigious medical schools

Anu Kumar

· Nov 01, 2023 · 11:30 am

Why the Jewish communities in India left a Zionist writer deeply disappointed

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Oct 28, 2023 · 11:30 am