history
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How a (false) threat from Japan altered British attitudes towards colonial India
Mukund Padmanabhan
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How Marathi literary giant Anant Kakba Priolkar became a pioneering historian of print in India
Murali Ranganathan
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What if the Andaman and Nicobar Islands had been a part of Burma, not India?
Ajay Kamalakaran
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‘History for Peace Tracts’: Truths, histories may be multifaceted but peaceful existence is the goal
Urmi Chanda
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Why the last king of Burma spent his final decades in Ratnagiri in isolation
Ajay Kamalakaran
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‘A Fate Written on Matchboxes’: How Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed’s ten-year rule changed Kashmir
Shakir Mir
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Why Burma was separated from British India
Ajay Kamalakaran
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The true story of a ‘Circus Beauty Queen’ who lifted an elephant on her chest
Ida Jo Pajunen
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India deeply disappointed Frieda Hauswirth, but she never gave up writing about it
Anu Kumar
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Historical fiction: The fascinating life of Kanhoji Angre, Shivaji’s fearsome naval commander
Sohail Rekhy
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Opinion: What does ‘justice’ mean to writers, poets, and ‘ordinary’ citizens?
Naveen Kishore
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When the British failed to stop Tamil labourers from emigrating to Madagascar
Ajay Kamalakaran
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‘Historical understanding is always open’: Romila Thapar reflects on ‘truth’
Scroll Staff
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‘Modern Indians must go beyond the binaries of secular and religious’: Writer Chandan Gowda
Jayanth Kodkani
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‘The History Teacher of Lahore’: Literature as witness and vehicle of change during difficult times
Saloni Sharma
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An American helped set up India’s first aircraft factory before he became a CIA spy
Anu Kumar
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This book tells the untold story of the outlawed separatist outfit, United Liberation Front of Asom
Rajeev Bhattacharyya
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How an opera set in India propelled the career of one of France’s greatest composers
Ajay Kamalakaran
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When a spiritual guru put the Indian government in a fix with a request for dual citizenship
Ajay Kamalakaran
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A new book suggests the first tools may have been invented by female Homo habilis to feed herself
Cat Bohannon