history
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Remembering SS Dwarka, the ship that carried Indian migrant workers to the Gulf for decades
Ajay Kamalakaran
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When Madras Army soldiers protested about the loss of extra pay
Margaret Makepeace
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What the letters from colonial India’s first archaeologist to his assistant reveal about his work
Upinder Singh
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‘Lahore’: This ambitious partition trilogy begins with negotiations and a love story
Manreet Sodhi Someshwar
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What does the writing of Constitutions have to do with wars? Plenty, as this book proves
Dinyar Patel
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Taliban’s return threatens what’s left of Afghanistan’s dazzlingly diverse heritage
Julian Droogan, The Conversation Malcolm Choat, The Conversation
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Even if you know everything about Emperor Ashoka, there are very good reasons to read ‘Asoca’
Sahana Hegde
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An Indian business community had thrived in Xinjiang before the Communists took over in China
Ajay Kamalakaran
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This translation of a historical novel asks whether the writer and the translator are joint authors
Prerna Vij
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Peggy Mohan’s book on India’s languages does not tell stories that suit the new political narrative
Umang Poddar
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Neither Ram Rajya nor golden Vedic age: Gail Omvedt (1941-2021) on the history of a casteless future
Gail Omvedt
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An unusual annotation in Bengal records from 1777 recalls the famous life of Catherine Grand
Lesley Shapland
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No hunger, no beggars: This BBC documentary traces how Afghanistan was in the 1950s
Scroll Staff
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Partha Chatterjee on why no one, not even Indians, can claim to be part of an ancient nation
Partha Chatterjee
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‘Padmini of Malwa’ blurs the line between fiction and history. What does this mean for storytelling?
Isa Ayidh
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How an 1822 publication by the Calcutta School Book Society brought animal biographies to students
Abhijit Gupta
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In Mongolia, melting ice is revealing hidden archaeological treasures
William Taylor, The Conversation
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This is the last book that beloved children’s author Subhadra Sen Gupta wrote
Subhadra Sen Gupta
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‘The Sanskrit texts divided horses into castes, just as they divided people’: Wendy Doniger
Avik Chanda
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Communal harmony and prudery about sex: An Italian composer’s impressions of 17th-century India
Ajay Kamalakaran