history
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The question of anachronism in Romila Thapar and Namit Arora’s new book, ‘Speaking of History’
Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
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A new book shows how colonialism influenced India’s preferences in alcohol
Sandhya Mulchandani
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When African-American boxer Gunboat Jack made boxing the ‘biggest sporting draw’ in Bangalore
Stanley Carvalho
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How India found common ground with Iran after the Shah’s fall in 1979
Ajay Kamalakaran
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How the magazine of Calcutta’s Presidency College, started in 1914, responded to world politics
Rochona Majumdar Sukanya Sarbadhikary Upal Chakrabarti
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Why a proposal to resettle Parsis in Iran in the 1940s never took off
Ajay Kamalakaran
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For children: A short history of how the Portuguese became the first colonisers of India
Saisudha Acharya
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What the Indus script, ‘discovered’ a hundred years ago, reveals about the ancient civilisation
Andrew Robinson
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For children: Heels, pigeons, betel leaf and everything else that tells stories of ancient India
Archana Garodia Gupta Shruti Garodia
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Remembering the journalist expelled from India for taking on the East India Company
Anu Kumar
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The Goan priest who helped save Catholicism in Sri Lanka
Ajay Kamalakaran
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How British artists painted Indian birds they had never seen
Kamayani Sharma
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A new book on Turkish history explores the era of the Ottoman Empire under Sultan Süleyman
Benjamin C Fortna
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Calcutta’s overlooked urban archives: How did directories and almanacks turn new year into history?
Devasis Chattopadhyay
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How the Cairo Fire of 1952 tested young India’s cautious foreign policy
Ajay Kamalakaran
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Indian flag history: How Pingali Venkayya designed one of the first versions of the tricolour
Navtej Sarna
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A bittersweet archive: The history of sohan halwa
Neha Vermani
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Why India waited two years before recognising Israel
Ajay Kamalakaran
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What Ceylon looked like through the eyes of KPS Menon
Ajay Kamalakaran
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What an intrepid English traveller saw in Balochistan in the late 19th century
Ajay Kamalakaran