Indian History
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‘The House of Awadh’: The exile and echoes of Begum Wilayat Mahal, the queen of nowhere
Ipshita Mitra
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From the memoir: A former Army general recalls how soldiers opted to fight for India’s freedom
SM Shrinagesh
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Podcast: In the history of modern Hindu identity, the failure and triumph of Hindutva
Dinyar Patel
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Readers’ comments: As inheritors of the sanatan dharma, how can we foster a questioning people?
Scroll
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Carved in stone: Gujarat’s rich cosmopolitan legacy in a 15th-century tomb complex
Aparna Kapadia
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Readers’ comments: Scroll is just a vanity project
Scroll
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Counterview: India’s past deserves more than apologia or amnesia
RS Krishna
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India’s complex history cannot be wished away through textbook revisions – it must be confronted
Hasnain Naqvi
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The emperor’s new clothes: How the Mughals fashioned a distinct identity
Simran Agarwal
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For children: How the national emblem of a free India came to be
Kavitha Mandana
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Why have Indian historians failed to combat ‘WhatsApp history’?
Shoaib Daniyal
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Podcast: Child widow to single mother, political icon – how Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay blazed a trail
Dinyar Patel
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Biography: How Coomar Narain made a career of leaking confidential bureaucratic documents
Kallol Bhattacharjee
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‘Absurdly extravagant and ridiculously curious’: What the British thought of emperor Asaf-ud-Daula
Ira Mukhoty
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‘Panic Sunday’: The day in 1857 when Wajid Ali Shah was arrested on charges of conspiracy
Sudipta Mitra
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Ballot boxes, inking fingers: An 85-year-old remembers India’s first General Election
Suhas Phadke
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Is the 2024 Lok Sabha election India’s last chance before the point of no return?
Sajjad Hassan
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Twentieth-century texts show the relationship between Muslim tailors, their trade and their faith
Amanda Lanzillo
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How Lala Lajpat Rai reinterpreted India’s ‘Muslim’ history to highlight peaceful co-existence
Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav
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Why a US maths professor created a board game about the medieval Deccan empires
Saverio E Spagnolie