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When the British secretly plotted to recruit Russians living in India against the Soviet Union

Ajay Kamalakaran
· 3 hours ago
The curious case of Pran Puri, the 18th century travelling monk who was discovered and forgotten

Rahul Sagar
· 6 hours ago
In an era of inequality, Fanny Workman climbed mountains in India and scaled new heights

Anu Kumar
· Feb 04, 2023 · 11:30 am
Maulana Azad: A new biography visits the life of the man who became India’s first education minister

S Irfan Habib
· Feb 03, 2023 · 08:30 am
This book for children remembers Jhalkari Bai, leader of the women’s wing of Rani Laxmibai’s army

Swati Sengupta
· Feb 01, 2023 · 11:30 am
Remembering the Gujarati lawyer who fought for Indian indentured labourers in Fiji and Mauritius

Ajay Kamalakaran
· Jan 31, 2023 · 11:30 am
Watch: How the original Hindenburg, the German Zeppelin, caught fire and crashed in 1937

Scroll Staff
· Jan 30, 2023 · 02:43 pm
Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar II was the people’s emperor – courteous to his own and the British

Swapna Liddle
· Jan 30, 2023 · 08:30 am
Fiction: A courtesan renounces pleasure and embraces Buddhism after she is betrayed by the world

Tanushree Podder
· Jan 26, 2023 · 12:30 pm
P Sainath’s new book amplifies voices and excavates memories of India’s forgotten freedom fighters

Saloni Sharma
· Jan 21, 2023 · 07:30 am
Why Assamese Muslims are smarting at CM’s dismissal of their hero Bagh Hazarika as fictional

Rokibuz Zaman
· Jan 21, 2023 · 06:30 am
Watch: Romila Thapar on how disproven stories are being made the basis of a new brand of history

Scroll Staff
· Jan 18, 2023 · 11:20 am
How are history books written for school-going readers in India? Here is an example

Roshen Dalal
· Jan 17, 2023 · 03:30 pm
A group of young friends and their pet elephant meet Prince Jahangir as a boy in this new book

Shruti Garodia Archana Garodia Gupta
· Jan 03, 2023 · 11:30 am
A historian studies the women of the Middle Ages to know why they were kept out of popular history

Janina Ramirez
· Jan 02, 2023 · 05:30 pm
Amid Mughal-Maratha battles, an East India Company man reaped the benefits of political neutrality

Anu Kumar
· Dec 31, 2022 · 11:30 am
What do medieval manuscripts tell us about cats?

Madeleine S Killacky, The Conversation
· Dec 27, 2022 · 11:30 pm
How the world discovered chocolate

Kathryn Sampeck, The Conversation
· Dec 26, 2022 · 11:30 pm
The story of the Indian immigrant who catalysed the New Zealand gold rush but died in near penury

Ajay Kamalakaran
· Dec 24, 2022 · 11:30 am
Amar Farooqui: A historian’s indelible legacy and lessons to last a lifetime

Sarath Pillai
· Dec 19, 2022 · 11:30 am