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A Bengaluru couple wants to save India’s tribal music – with a little help from urban artists
Sanskrita Bharadwaj
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A bitter parting: The turbulent period after Partition when the RBI acted as Pakistan’s central bank
Rahul Bajoria
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Watch an animated history of how cats went from being predators to domesticated companions
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India’s invaluable dinosaur fossils lie neglected and forgotten in this Kolkata museum
Sebanti Sarkar
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The Indian bowling sensation who left American batsmen flummoxed in the early 20th century
Anu Kumar
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Finding Mrs Sen: The first Indian woman to fly in a plane was a poet called Mrinalini Devi
Aarefa Johari
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Infinite Variety: A History of Desire in India
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Who We Are And How We Got Here
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Best of 2018: History
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Gandhi: The Years that Changed the World
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How India Became Democratic
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The Most Dangerous Place: A History of the United States in South Asia
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Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire
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Jahangir: An Intimate Portrait of a Great Mughal
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Rebel Sultans: The Deccan from Khilji to Shivaji
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Many of us read these five writers’ books in 2018. What did they enjoy reading the most?
Urvashi Bahuguna
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‘The long history of Sanskrit has many faces, including voices of protest and revolt’: David Shulman
Veena Muthuraman
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How did ordinary Indians fight for their constitutional rights? A book offers this untold history
Vikram Hegde
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Can the arrival of the Aryans in India explain the disconnect between Harappan and Vedic culture?
Tony Joseph
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Who was Mrs Sen? The search for the first woman to fly in India
Aarefa Johari