history
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‘A New History of India’: A book conceived with grand intentions that succeeds occasionally
Nandan Kaushik
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S Irfan Habib: ‘Maulana Abul Kalam Azad espoused composite nationalism all his life’
Majid Maqbool
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Out to document biodiversity, a zoologist ended up giving a glimpse of Andaman and Nicobar’s jails
Ajay Kamalakaran
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This revered revolutionary was convinced that Bulgarians were descendants of Indians
Ajay Kamalakaran
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A 152-year-old bazaar in Kolkata holds the history of Bengali mishti’s evolution
Priyadarshini Chatterjee
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History of China: What life was like during the Mongol Yuan dynasty rule established by Khublai Khan
Linda Jaivin
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A reminder of a time when India welcomed refugees and cared for them
Ajay Kamalakaran
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After travelling the world, an artist couple’s existential search for truth ended in an Indian town
Anu Kumar
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No communal strife: What a globetrotter saw in Jammu and Kashmir in early 20th century
Ajay Kamalakaran
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Do you want to keep the country under boil? asks SC on plea to rename places named after ‘invaders’
Scroll Staff
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When Indian labourers came to the rescue of the British Army in Mesopotamia
Ajay Kamalakaran
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This book tries to chronicle the entire history of democracy in the world in just 224 pages
John Keane
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Why pioneering explorer Alexandra David-Néel kept coming back to India again and again
Ajay Kamalakaran
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Why the Soviet Union under Leonid Brezhnev saw political stability but economic stagnation
Sheila Fitzpatrick
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Why did the British photograph the sun every day from Dehradun for 47 years?
Kamayani Sharma
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Amrit Udyan controversy: BJP’s renaming sprees will leave India with crippling amnesia
Faisal CK
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How did kingdoms in Bengal, Deccan break away from the Delhi Sultanate to build their own legacies?
Rudrangshu Mukherjee
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When the British secretly plotted to recruit Russians living in India against Nazi Germany
Ajay Kamalakaran
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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