history
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What colonial writing about Indian birds reveals about the British Raj
Jamil Urfi
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How old is Lahore? The clues lie in a blend of historical fact and expedient legend
Haroon Khalid
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The Goan-origin woman who fought for Angola’s freedom and was killed by its first government
Pamela D’Mello
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Photos: The Nepalese pioneers who shattered the belief that girls’ education threatens social order
Nepal Picture Library
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Satire and the Malayali: Why India’s best cartoonists almost always come from Kerala
Malini Nair
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Photos: An Indian couple has built a collection of 4,500 Raj-era picture postcards
Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri
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Meet Su Venkatesan, whose serialised Tamil novel ‘Velpari’ has crossed 100 instalments
Kavitha Muralidharan
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The Bandra resident who went on to become a pioneering tap dancer and the ‘first lady of swing’
Anu Kumar
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Can we understand modern India and China by comparing their histories?
Peter Gordon
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From the skies, an architect retraces a century-old survey of Ahmedabad’s City Walls
Robert Stephens
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How the Inkas governed, thrived and fell without a written alphabet
Christopher Given-Wilson, The Conversation
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Sex worker, con-woman, serial murderess: The story of Troilokya, who terrorised Calcutta in 1800s
Deepanjan Ghosh
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The Mughals were an integral part of India – so why are they being labelled foreigners?
Parvati Sharma
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How Gandhi avoided the pitfall of Aurobindo’s approach to civil resistance
David Hardiman
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Shells, songs and bombs: How Indians experienced World War I on the home front
George Morton-Jack
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How the last king of Indore left a mark on the world of style and the arts
Meera Ganapathi
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Jallianwala Bagh massacre: How Colonel Dyer exploited the planned gathering as a ‘gift of fortune’
Kishwar Desai
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How fake news may have shaped the future of a Tamil empire in medieval India
Aditya Iyengar
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What does a 21st century feminist do when transported to King Vidyadhar’s 11th-century court?
Jai Arjun Singh
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An imaginative biography of Jahangir shows how the distant past can be made intimately recognisable
Supriya Nair