history
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Sufism doesn’t necessarily mean what you think it does
Zahra Sabri
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A hunt for Bengaluru’s forgotten inscription stones is tracing the history of Kannada and the city
Akhila Ranganna
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Remembering the Swiss woman who went from ‘India to the Planet Mars’ in the 19th century
Anu Kumar
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How similar was Neanderthal Man to Homo Sapiens? Novelist William Golding got there before science
Arnab Chakraborty
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Interview: ‘Cricket has a place in textbooks because history is not only about the past’
Shreya Roy Chowdhury
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Can the history of South India be told in a single book? No, but this one tells stories that matter
Veena Muthuraman
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How an ‘accidental’ gunshot at a family picnic led to the 107-year-long rule of the Begums of Bhopal
Shaharyar Muhammed Khan
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Resistance and resilience: Dalit History Month 2018 showcases neglected histories and untold stories
Mridula Chari
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The day 385 years ago when bananas made their British debut
Rebecca Earle, The Conversation
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100 years on, remembering the Hindu-German conspiracy to violently overthrow the British Raj
Anu Kumar
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Who left these ancient sculptures of horsemen around the Pir Panjal range?
Prashant Mathawan
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A unique boat museum in Kolkata pays tribute to Bengal’s rivers and their forgotten traditions
Deepanjan Ghosh
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Photos: Treatises on Hindustani music from Akbar’s reign that shaped music theory for centuries
Katherine Butler Schofield
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75 years since the Bengal famine: How much was Churchill’s bias to blame for the death of millions?
Madhushree Mukerjee
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Mary Beard’s new book traces the history of modern day templates of misogyny (and they go far back)
Lopa Ghosh
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For India’s docile media, a lesson in press freedom from 18th century Calcutta
Anu Kumar
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India should draft a fresh secular code applicable to all citizens, writes historian Romila Thapar
Romila Thapar
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The quest to preserve the ‘Lotus Sutra’, Buddha’s final teaching on salvation
Mélodie Doumy
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‘In new India, anyone who shreds a few posters at the crossroads becomes a historian’: Ravish Kumar
Ravish Kumar
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Video: This is believed to be the world’s oldest message in a bottle. What does it say?
Reuters