history
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Why the imagined opposition between academic and public historians needs to be questioned
Ruby Lal
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How a British suffragist brought Ajanta’s ancient paintings into the light of modernity
Kamayani Sharma
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Projit B Mukharji wins Pfizer Award for ‘Brown Skins, White Coats: Race Science in India, 1920–66’
Scroll Staff
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Buddhism’s spread from India to China started with a Han emperor’s dream
Ajay Kamalakaran
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Why King Mohammed Quli Qutb Shah and devadasi Bhagmati’s marriage is integral to Hyderabad’s history
Moupia Basu
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Hounded around the world, the first ‘man-made man’ took refuge in India
Vikram Doctor
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Family history: A writer investigates why her great-grandfather chose to sail to South Africa
Amrita Shah
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How the Sassoons of Bombay became one of China’s wealthiest families
Ajay Kamalakaran
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How Gandhi, Nehru, and the rest of the world reacted to the news that Subhash Chandra Bose had died
Anuj Dhar Chandrachur Ghose
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Why Nawab Wajid Ali Shah appointed his lovers to important positions in his court
Arul Paul Sonal Mithal
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A book on Delhi’s histories recounts how Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya’s shrine became a pilgrimage site
Nita Berry
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A restaurant menu from 1935 is a reminder of how much Bombay has changed
Mustansir Dalvi
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What Mahatma Gandhi taught the Indian business community in Sri Lanka
Ajay Kamalakaran
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‘Not an interesting place’: What Arthur Conan Doyle thought of Bombay after a brief visit
Ajay Kamalakaran
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Fiction: A team of Indian archaeologists is hunting down clues to locate the ruins of a lost empire
Hamish Morjaria
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How Sikkim’s beauty enthralled Nicholas Roerich
Ajay Kamalakaran
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Calcutta history: Harry Hobbs, British piano tuner, and forgotten chronicler of the city
Devasis Chattopadhyay
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As a fighter and a peace broker, an Indian played a memorable role in Indonesia’s freedom struggle
Anu Kumar
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History of Hyderabad: How state support for education gave India its first vernacular university
Dinesh C Sharma
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‘The Golden Road’ by William Dalrymple: An information-rich narration of knowledge in ancient India
Shakir Mir