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'Dancing Girl' as Parvati is just one of many bizarre claims in ICHR paper on Harappan civilisation
Kavita Singh
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Bombay obsessive: Australian who has spent decades studying the city to be honoured this weekend
Prashant Kidambi
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Video: All the years you just bid goodbye to can make 2017 better
Scroll Staff
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Was 2016 just 1938 all over again?
Julie Gottlieb, The Conversation
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Readers' comments: 'The decision to start the New Year with poetry brought much joy'
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'Parvati' in Mohenjo-daro: New claims for the statuette are part of the continuing Hindutva project
Ruchika Sharma
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Readers' comments: 'Stealthy surgical strikes on one's own people is bad governance'
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The Taimur debate reflects Hindutva neurosis and other Scroll stories you may have missed last week
Scroll Staff
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Recapturing lost history: Key moments in the journey of the graphic image in India
Ranjit Hoskote
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Readers' comments: Responsible parents would not have named their son Taimur
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These 13 crucial events capture the sparkling adventures of the Kohinoor
William Dalrymple Anita Anand
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Why did the world once believe that giraffes came from India?
Anu Kumar
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The story of the other East India Company: a Dutch enterprise in Ceylon (gorgeous images alert)
Smriti Daniel
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Watch: Are we using the wrong calendar to mark human history?
Scroll Staff
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Gujarati sandals in Baghdad: Challenging a centuries-old text about how Islam came to India
Syed Nomanul Haq
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15th century samosas, the Sonam Gupta mystery and the pick of Scroll.in stories from last week
Scroll Staff
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How Ottoman Turks depicted women of India and other parts of the world
Sunil Sharma
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A research team solved the 1,000-year-old mystery of the Druze people’s origin – with a genetic GPS
Eran Elhaik, The Conversation
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How a 2,700-year-old piece of papyrus super-charged the debate over UNESCO's stance on Jerusalem
Michael Langlois, The Conversation
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Why an ex-journalist chose to document his Dalit culture in a food book
Aakash Karkare