History
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Spy vs Seditionist: What British agents thought of Indian revolutionaries in Japan
Ajay Kamalakaran
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A robot in a 400-year-old painting of Jahangir is a lesson in how rulers project global power
Kamayani Sharma
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How a stint in Bombay helped Georg Bühler become one of the most prominent Indologists in Europe
Ajay Kamalakaran
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A new book offers detailed historical accounts of the Sultans of Oman in the 19th century
Seema Alavi
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Ranajit Guha (1923-2023): The thinker and historian was also an idealistic political activist
Somak Mukherjee
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Non-fiction books in June: Histories, memoirs, and biographies for a new month of reading
Sayari Debnath
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Historical fiction: Can Begum Hazrat Mahal’s rebel army fight the British and secure Awadh’s future?
Malathi Ramachandran
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How did the Indian langur end up in a prehistoric mural in Greece?
Kamayani Sharma
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On a propaganda tour in India, the first Black Ivy League professor found complexities and paradoxes
Anu Kumar
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This book tells the story of the Tamil queen who led an army of women against the East India Company
Shubendra
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Remembering the first major Carnatic music concert in the United States
Ajay Kamalakaran
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Carrots and sticks: How food was used to oppress Indian sailors on colonial ships
Priyadarshini Chatterjee
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Podcast: The bitter truth about the sugar industries of pre-modern India and their global legacy
Dinyar Patel
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Watch: First full-size 3D scans of The Titanic provides views never seen after the shipwreck
Scroll Staff
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A new book revives works of a mapmaker who depicted in 1846 how Shahjahanabad had evolved
Swapna Liddle
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An Indian sanyasi’s myth-busting account of Tibet
Ajay Kamalakaran
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Fiction: How did brothers Hakka and Bukka Raya establish the Vijayanagara empire?
Buchi Ramagopal
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‘It’d be madness to think it was all sword and fire’: Vivekananda on the long Muslim rule in India
Govind Krishnan V
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What is the future of the museum? Romila Thapar on why the past needs to be understood in context
Romila Thapar
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The story of the charming British conman who duped Bombay jewellers and still walked free
Ajay Kamalakaran