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Kamayani Sharma
· May 11, 2024 · 11:30 am
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· May 07, 2024 · 11:30 am
‘Panic Sunday’: The day in 1857 when Wajid Ali Shah was arrested on charges of conspiracy
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· May 06, 2024 · 08:30 am
‘Hand of God’: How a young Indian Navy sailor returned from the dead in Australia in 1951
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· Apr 27, 2024 · 11:30 am
Joya Chatterji’s ‘Shadows at Noon’ wins best history book at the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Awards
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· Apr 25, 2024 · 12:45 pm
What children can learn from the stunning animal carvings on the rocks of Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu
Ashwin Prabhu
· Apr 24, 2024 · 01:30 pm
Why Britain rebuffed Australia’s effort to recruit Indian labour for its pearl fishing industry
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· Apr 22, 2024 · 11:30 am
Husna Bai: The tawaif who made Hindustani music a respectable profession for women artists
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· Apr 17, 2024 · 08:30 am
How Indians won civil rights in Australia
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· Apr 16, 2024 · 11:30 am
When an emperor came calling on a newly independent India to learn from its early successes
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· Mar 28, 2024 · 11:30 am
A new book profiles art critic Rudolf von Leyden, champion of India’s emerging avant-garde painters
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· Mar 21, 2024 · 08:30 am
Why Bangkok was a hotbed of Indian revolutionaries during the First World War
Ajay Kamalakaran
· Mar 19, 2024 · 11:30 am
Arley Munson’s words are a troubling reminder of how Kipling’s India treated women
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· Mar 16, 2024 · 11:30 am
A new book talks of IM Lall, the ICS officer who defied the British Empire and won a case against it
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· Mar 13, 2024 · 08:30 am
A new novel imagines the life of Waris Shah, the creator of the evergreen lovers Heer and Ranjha
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· Mar 12, 2024 · 05:30 pm
While Indians faced prejudice and abuse in Thailand, British colonists chose to dilly-dally
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· Mar 12, 2024 · 11:30 am
Memoir: A French soldier’s fascinating contemporary commentary on the rapidly decaying Mughal Empire
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· Mar 12, 2024 · 08:30 am
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· Mar 06, 2024 · 01:30 pm
A 19th-century Indian queen’s photographic work has been obscured by history
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· Mar 04, 2024 · 11:30 am
‘Vagabond Princess’: Ruby Lal’s biography of Mughal princess Gulbadan is lush and evocative
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· Mar 03, 2024 · 07:30 am
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