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Indian History

  • Watch: What Fori Nehru, the Jewish woman who married a Nehru, saw during 109 years of her life

    Watch: What Fori Nehru, the Jewish woman who married a Nehru, saw during 109 years of her life

    Scroll Staff
    · Apr 27, 2017 · 01:00 pm
  • Watch: This video explains India's role in WWI (and its connection to the freedom struggle)

    Watch: This video explains India's role in WWI (and its connection to the freedom struggle)

    Scroll Staff
    · Mar 16, 2017 · 10:00 am
  • A new exhibition aims to tell the history of India through 200 objects from all over the world

    A new exhibition aims to tell the history of India through 200 objects from all over the world

    Aarefa Johari
    · Feb 04, 2017 · 01:04 pm
  • Counterview: Taimur's actions were uniquely horrific in Indian history

    Counterview: Taimur's actions were uniquely horrific in Indian history

    Girish Shahane
    · Dec 28, 2016 · 08:40 am
  • Beyond Harappa: Pakistanis struggle with the paradox of their Indian heritage

    Beyond Harappa: Pakistanis struggle with the paradox of their Indian heritage

    Haroon Khalid
    · Aug 24, 2016 · 05:30 pm
  • Why do Indian and Pakistani textbooks tell wildly different histories?

    Why do Indian and Pakistani textbooks tell wildly different histories?

    Radhika Iyengar
    · Aug 14, 2016 · 11:30 am
  • 'Did Bill Gates build Buland Darwaza?': Sarcasm follows Twitter drive to erase India's Mughal past

    'Did Bill Gates build Buland Darwaza?': Sarcasm follows Twitter drive to erase India's Mughal past

    Scroll Staff
    · Mar 02, 2016 · 05:49 pm
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