An examination guide from 1868 shows what it took to join the Bombay Native Infantry

Margaret Makepeace

· Oct 24, 2021 · 07:30 pm

Biography controversy: How do you write the life story of someone who has long been dead?

Narayani Basu

· Oct 24, 2021 · 08:30 am

‘For a fuller understanding of modern India, we must also investigate the princely states’

Avik Chanda

· Oct 23, 2021 · 12:30 pm

Watch: 900-year-old sword, believed to have been a crusader’s, recovered from Mediterranean seabed

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· Oct 20, 2021 · 12:30 pm

When Maldives was ruled by Catholic kings living all the way in Goa

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Oct 16, 2021 · 11:30 am

In the 19th century, groups of American women rose up in support of an Indian activist

Anu Kumar

· Oct 12, 2021 · 11:30 am

Watch: Why was ancient Egyptian king Tutankhamun’s tomb not a grand structure?

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· Oct 07, 2021 · 11:53 am

Mariamman in Saigon: The story of Vietnam’s most famous Hindu temple

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· Oct 05, 2021 · 11:30 am

‘The Grand Anicut’: The Cholas are in control, and a dam is coming up on the Kaveri in this novel

Veena Muthuraman

· Oct 04, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Manu S Pillai on how maharajah Sayaji Rao of Baroda (temporarily) defied the British government

Manu S Pillai

· Sep 27, 2021 · 08:30 am

Re-reading ‘Empress’: As a feminist historian, Ruby Lal offers a scholarly look at Nur Jahan’s life

Avik Chanda

· Sep 26, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Remembering SS Dwarka, the ship that carried Indian migrant workers to the Gulf for decades

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Sep 25, 2021 · 11:30 am

When Madras Army soldiers protested about the loss of extra pay

Margaret Makepeace

· Sep 22, 2021 · 07:30 pm

What the letters from colonial India’s first archaeologist to his assistant reveal about his work

Upinder Singh

· Sep 21, 2021 · 08:30 am

‘Lahore’: This ambitious partition trilogy begins with negotiations and a love story

Manreet Sodhi Someshwar

· Sep 20, 2021 · 05:30 pm

What does the writing of Constitutions have to do with wars? Plenty, as this book proves

Dinyar Patel

· Sep 18, 2021 · 08:30 am

Taliban’s return threatens what’s left of Afghanistan’s dazzlingly diverse heritage

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· Sep 17, 2021 · 11:30 pm

Even if you know everything about Emperor Ashoka, there are very good reasons to read ‘Asoca’

Sahana Hegde

· Sep 11, 2021 · 12:30 pm

An Indian business community had thrived in Xinjiang before the Communists took over in China

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Sep 07, 2021 · 11:30 am

This translation of a historical novel asks whether the writer and the translator are joint authors

Prerna Vij

· Sep 05, 2021 · 12:30 pm