Watch: Comical takes on historical events are now a TikTok staple

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· Oct 29, 2019 · 10:00 am

Indian revolutionaries plan to ambush a train carrying the Kohinoor diamond in this novel

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· Oct 25, 2019 · 07:30 am

How crystal chandeliers gifted to the Shah of Persia travelled from England to Bombay to Tehran

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· Oct 13, 2019 · 09:30 pm

Watch: ‘For fascists, politics is about friends and enemies’, says historian Timothy Snyder

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· Oct 10, 2019 · 02:38 pm

Why a Deccan ruler in 16th century commissioned a beautiful garden and then promptly razed it

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· Oct 09, 2019 · 11:30 am

Watch: On Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary, here are a few moments from his life

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· Oct 02, 2019 · 06:52 pm

‘You suddenly realise the great British conquest of India was a corporate event’: William Dalrymple

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· Sep 14, 2019 · 08:30 am

A ledger gives a sense of how the East India Company was singed by the 1666 London fire

Margaret Makepeace

· Sep 11, 2019 · 07:30 pm

Watch: ‘Isro always bounces back from its failures’, says Akash Banerjee in new video

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· Sep 08, 2019 · 02:11 pm

Romila Thapar on the secular view of Indian history (and its differences with the communal one)

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· Sep 04, 2019 · 05:30 pm

William Dalrymple's new book shows corporate violence began in India with the East India Company

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· Aug 26, 2019 · 08:30 am

A study shows the surprising similarities in the way royal women once exercised power

Laura Spinney, Aeon

· Aug 08, 2019 · 11:30 pm

Watch: Everyday life in Kashmir’s villages and cities was tranquil – in 1965

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· Aug 07, 2019 · 08:51 am

Kwame Nkrumah: Why the hero of Ghana’s independence struggle is often considered a villain

Akwasi Kwarteng Amoako-Gyampah, The Conversation

· Aug 04, 2019 · 09:30 pm

Filling a gap in history: Who were the Indian women who popularised yoga?

Soumya Rao

· Jul 31, 2019 · 11:30 am

What lessons do Indian historians learn from history? Ask Satish Chandra and Harbans Mukhika

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· Jul 29, 2019 · 08:00 am

A British merchant’s journey from Madras to England gives a glimpse into early days of colonialism

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· Jul 24, 2019 · 11:30 am

An obituary of my Goan mother, who sang fado, wrote an international cookbook and spread laughter

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· Jul 20, 2019 · 11:30 am

‘Tawaifnama’: How a zamindar’s mistress saved him and herself from an English officer

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· Jul 20, 2019 · 07:00 am

Even dentures made of hippo ivory and human teeth couldn’t solve George Washington’s dental problems

William Maloney, The Conversation

· Jul 04, 2019 · 11:30 pm