history
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Tracing the overlapping lives of my great-grandfather and one of the heroes of the Bombay Plague
Luis Dias
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In Egypt, archaeologists have made a discovery as important as the finding of Tutankhamen’s tomb
Anna M Kotarba-Morley, The Conversation
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Long before The Great Khali and WWE, there were Basanta Singh and Gobar Goho
Anu Kumar
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Was the decision to stop publishing six obscure Dr Seuss racist titles an erasure of history?
Monica Eileen Patterson, The Conversation
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This book recounts the lives of Dalit leaders, many of them half-forgotten like Jogendranath Mandal
Sudarshan Ramabadran Guru Prakash Paswan
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What impact did the Sikh Gurus have on the empires of Sikh kings?
Priya Atwal
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Watch: Archaeologists discover 3,000-year-old ‘lost golden city’ in Egypt
Scroll Staff
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This book visits the sites of India’s civilisations to reimagine 4,000 years of history
Rajmohan Gandhi
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Did the Namboodiris change Malayalam to add Sanskrit elements to the language?
Peggy Mohan
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Watch: On this date 125 years ago, the first modern Olympic Games were held at Athens
Scroll Staff
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Watch: The world’s deepest shipwreck, from 1944, has been mapped for the first time
Scroll Staff
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Watch: 22 Egyptian mummies transferred to new resting place in ‘Pharaoh’s Golden Parade’
Scroll Staff
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How harpists (including one from Benaras) were portrayed in the tales of the Buddha’s former lives
Maria Kekki
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‘I tried to move away from a nationalist hagiography of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre’: VN Datta
Nonica Datta VN Datta
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Pomp and power: A rare glimpse of life in the court of India’s last Mughal emperor
Munshi Faizuddin
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Watch: Historian Ramachandra Guha on the joy of foraging through libraries, archives for information
Scroll Staff
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How a French governor in Bengal wanted to drive the English out from India in the 18th century
Robert Ivermee
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‘Sambhaji’: This Marathi novel on the life of Shivaji’s son is now out in English translation
Vishwas Patil
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A ‘new’ poetry find has left lovers of Sappho thrilled, but its backstory may have been fabricated
C Michael Sampson, The Conversation
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What would human history look like if told through our relationships with animals?
Trisha Gupta