history
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The curious case of Pran Puri, the 18th century travelling monk who was discovered and forgotten
Rahul Sagar
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In an era of inequality, Fanny Workman climbed mountains in India and scaled new heights
Anu Kumar
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Maulana Azad: A new biography visits the life of the man who became India’s first education minister
S Irfan Habib
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This book for children remembers Jhalkari Bai, leader of the women’s wing of Rani Laxmibai’s army
Swati Sengupta
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Remembering the Gujarati lawyer who fought for Indian indentured labourers in Fiji and Mauritius
Ajay Kamalakaran
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Watch: How the original Hindenburg, the German Zeppelin, caught fire and crashed in 1937
Scroll Staff
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Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar II was the people’s emperor – courteous to his own and the British
Swapna Liddle
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Fiction: A courtesan renounces pleasure and embraces Buddhism after she is betrayed by the world
Tanushree Podder
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P Sainath’s new book amplifies voices and excavates memories of India’s forgotten freedom fighters
Saloni Sharma
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Why Assamese Muslims are smarting at CM’s dismissal of their hero Bagh Hazarika as fictional
Rokibuz Zaman
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Watch: Romila Thapar on how disproven stories are being made the basis of a new brand of history
Scroll Staff
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How are history books written for school-going readers in India? Here is an example
Roshen Dalal
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A group of young friends and their pet elephant meet Prince Jahangir as a boy in this new book
Shruti Garodia Archana Garodia Gupta
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A historian studies the women of the Middle Ages to know why they were kept out of popular history
Janina Ramirez
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Amid Mughal-Maratha battles, an East India Company man reaped the benefits of political neutrality
Anu Kumar
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What do medieval manuscripts tell us about cats?
Madeleine S Killacky, The Conversation
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How the world discovered chocolate
Kathryn Sampeck, The Conversation
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The story of the Indian immigrant who catalysed the New Zealand gold rush but died in near penury
Ajay Kamalakaran
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Amar Farooqui: A historian’s indelible legacy and lessons to last a lifetime
Sarath Pillai
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How an Irish poet and playwright became a part of India’s cultural mosaic
Ajay Kamalakaran