history
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Archaeological finds prove that fear of the walking dead was very real to medieval minds
Alyxandra Mattison, The Conversation
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Contrary to popular belief, Karachi's Wazir Mansion was probably not Jinnah's birthplace
Akhtar Balouch
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Watch: The world’s rarest colour actually comes from India
Scroll Staff
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Before the feast: Hebrew manuscripts show Jewish families cleaning together with candles, feathers
Miriam Lewis Zsofia Buda
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Nine objects that tell a few fascinating stories of Indian cricket
Boria Majumdar
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Goa’s temples are losing their local features, and the rise of money power may be to blame
Pamela D’Mello
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Watch: The humble rubber band has a very curious history (and that's not stretching things too far)
Scroll Staff
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The 19th-century women doctors of India whose pioneering work has been forgotten by history
Anu Kumar
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How the complexities of Hinduism and Indian society confused Europeans
Anu Kumar
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How Lahore, the city that once propelled Zulfikar Ali Bhutto to greatness, also led to his undoing
Haroon Khalid
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How the first English clock with Bengali numerals and Swiss machinery came to Calcutta
Sarbajaya Bhattacharya
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How a statist vision of development has brought Andaman's tribals close to extinction
Pankaj Sekhsaria
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Readers' comments: Scroll.in's articles do not touch upon the nuances of the meat ban issue
Scroll
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The evolution of the fashion magazine: From publications for ‘virtuous virgins’ to ‘Vogue’
Rachel Brett
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Transfer of archaeologist from history-defining Sangam era site leads to uproar in Tamil Nadu
Sruthisagar Yamunan
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A photographer’s deep dive into India’s stepwells: ‘It was like discovering a new galaxy’
Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri
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From murders to drunken brawls: A 'black book' of the misdemeanours of East India Company employees
Margaret Makepeace
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RBI governor quits, defying government diktat. Successor complies. The year? 1957
TCA Srinivasa Raghavan
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Glimpses of a book on the Americas, published by the Ottoman Empire, that costs as much as a house
Michael Erdman
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Tracing the history of the Book of Esther and Jewish festival Purim
Ilana Tahan