Readers’ comments: ‘Intellectuals should critique instead of just criticising’

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· Sep 20, 2017 · 10:30 pm

The Irish slave trader and sea captain who founded the town of Bombay – in New York

Anu Kumar

· Sep 18, 2017 · 11:30 am

Prithviraj Chauhan: Which stories about the king have been made up over the years?

Anu Kumar

· Sep 17, 2017 · 08:30 am

How the British convinced Hindus that Muslims were despots and religious invaders

Manan Ahmed Asif

· Sep 16, 2017 · 11:30 am

Despite their conspiracy theories, Hindutva backers raise valid concerns about Indian history books

Rohit Chopra

· Sep 16, 2017 · 08:00 am

The reality of race: The term ‘white people’ was invented by a playwright in 1613

Ed Simon

· Sep 15, 2017 · 11:30 pm

Mughals only looted India, history syllabus will be rewritten, says UP deputy chief minister

Scroll Staff

· Sep 13, 2017 · 06:45 pm

Illustrations: Vietnam’s bustling traditional markets in the early 1900s

Sud Chonchirdsin

· Sep 09, 2017 · 09:30 pm

Slaver’s Bay: The little-known history of Dutch slave trade in a small town in Tamil Nadu

Vinita Govindarajan

· Aug 29, 2017 · 11:30 am

‘A thousand-year relationship’: Ambassador Nirupama Rao traces the ties between India and China

Nirupama Rao

· Aug 23, 2017 · 07:30 pm

Paintings capture the life of an English doctor’s family in Lucknow during the British Raj

Malini Roy

· Aug 22, 2017 · 08:30 pm

This epic saga of a Kerala port is as much history as it is a work of expansive imagination

Jael Silliman

· Aug 19, 2017 · 08:30 am

Finally, a tantalising YA book (for adults too) that uses archaeology to recount Indian history

Anu Kumar

· Aug 12, 2017 · 10:30 am

A 53-foot scroll tells the story of the 1857 mutiny (from the British perspective)

Swati Chattopadhyay

· Aug 11, 2017 · 07:30 pm

In Bengal, the bond of Rakhi once symbolised eternal protection – between Hindus and Muslims

Deepanjan Ghosh

· Aug 07, 2017 · 11:30 am

What Malay works from Patani tell us about the literary and cultural heritage of Southeast Asia

Annabel Gallop

· Aug 06, 2017 · 08:30 pm

How the humble potato fuelled the rise of liberal capitalism

Rebecca Earle, The Conversation

· Aug 05, 2017 · 08:30 pm

Identity politics: Why Pakistan has erased Kautilya from its consciousness

Saif Tahir

· Aug 04, 2017 · 08:30 pm

Why Swami Vivekananda had to treat Sister Nivedita harshly (he was committed to celibacy)

Reba Som

· Aug 03, 2017 · 08:30 am

Why World War I cultivated an obsession with insects

Rachel Murray, The Conversation

· Jul 31, 2017 · 11:30 pm