history
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Gillian Tindall (1938-2025): A Bombay biographer who opened the city’s eyes to its own stories
Murali Ranganathan
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The Indian doctors who risked their lives to support China in its war with Japan
Ajay Kamalakaran
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‘Indira Gandhi and the Years that Transformed India’ stands apart from other books on the subject
Nikhil Sanjay-Rekha Adsule
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Enemy Foreigners: The Thais caught in Britain’s wartime net across colonial India
Ajay Kamalakaran
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‘He pulls everything that’s floating closer to the centre’: Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt
Muddasir Ramzan
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‘Sheher Mein Gaon’: A compelling articulation of the many tangled issues of Delhi’s ‘urban villages’
Madhulika Liddle
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A new book recounts British Governor Cornwallis’s attempts to remove Tipu Sultan
Amar Farooqui
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What Syed Ahmad Khan’s 1847 architectural history of Delhi says about contemporary India
Fahad Zuberi
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Indian stock market history: How the SIP became popular and democratised finance
Adil Rustomjee
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Commerce amid suspicion: Inside Russia’s 19th-century push to trade with India
Ajay Kamalakaran
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Forgotten migrants, unfinished decolonisation: Why Kalyani Ramnath writes about citizenship history
Kalyani Ramnath
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Love, marriage and masalas: The Indian experience in 1970s Soviet Union
Ajay Kamalakaran
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Better than First Class: The luxurious beginnings of international air travel in India
Ajay Kamalakaran
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World War II history: An Indian soldier witnesses kindness by an officer from an enemy country
Diya Gupta
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How Hindustani vocalist Narayanrao Vyas became a record-breaking superstar in the early 20th century
Malini Nair
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How a little-known Punjabi director became a pioneer of Malay cinema
Ajay Kamalakaran
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How a 19th-century Tamil temple in Bangkok became a spiritual sanctuary for all
Ajay Kamalakaran
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Indian LGBTQ history: How the British criminalised those who were sexually agentive and queer
Sindhu Rajasekaran
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Financial history: How worthless ‘banana money’ issued after World War II troubled business in Asia
Kalyani Ramnath
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From plague to prejudice: What a Scottish academic’s memoir tells us about 19th-century Bombay
Ajay Kamalakaran