history
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How libraries across the world have preserved Ukraine’s books and cultural history
Ksenya Kiebuzinski, The Conversation
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‘There is a great hunger to see ourselves reflected in history, to hear our stories’: Ira Mukhoty
Sayari Debnath
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How a steamer service from Calcutta transformed Rangoon from an overgrown village to a boomtown
Ajay Kamalakaran
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Watch: Five ancient tombs discovered at archaeological site near Egyptian capital Cairo
Scroll Staff
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How India’s economy under Nehru came to be steered by a professor and an academic institute
Nikhil Menon
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The mystery of an ancient Hindu-Buddhist kingdom in Malay Peninsula
Ajay Kamalakaran
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Throughout history, Russian rulers have used the medieval Kyivan Rus state to justify expansionism
Christoph Mick, The Conversation
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‘Delhi, In Thy Name’: An unusual history of India’s capital is revealed by its neighbourhoods
Kanupriya Dhingra
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Before Armenians flourished in Bombay and Calcutta, they found a thriving home in Surat
Ajay Kamalakaran
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A historian clears up some mistruths and half-truths about the history of Ukraine and Russia
Ronald Suny, The Conversation
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How the Mahabharata rules the national imagination through a mix of fact and fantasy
Urmi Chanda
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The diary of a Dutch East India Company soldier who was marooned on a desert island
Maddy Smith
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Reading ‘The Dawn of Everything’ from India: What if the past was a more enlightened place?
Durba Chattaraj
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Gunavarman: The Kashmiri monk who helped spread Buddhism across Asia
Ajay Kamalakaran
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‘A king could have commanded the worst atrocities on enemies and yet built awe-inspiring temples’
Vikram Chandra
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A brief history of how Parsis flourished in Zanzibar (with a cameo from Freddie Mercury)
Ajay Kamalakaran
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Revisiting Rana Safvi’s Delhi trilogy shows how her books capture long-term history, not moments
Avik Chanda
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How a pioneering Greek scholar was robbed of the credit for translating Chanakya’s words in Sanskrit
Ajay Kamalakaran
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Shruti Kapila’s new book frames India’s political history in violence to explain the current reality
Narayani Basu
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Humayun’s tomb: What are the architectural principles and influences on the famous Delhi monument?
Shashank Shekhar Sinha