history
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Why World War I cultivated an obsession with insects
Rachel Murray, The Conversation
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The Lost City: These monuments are a reminder that Kolkata has abandoned many of its heroes
Deepanjan Ghosh
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Thucydides’s trap: Is war inevitable as a rising China threatens the United States’ dominance?
Börje Ljunggren
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A guide to jianzi, a Chinese game with a shuttlecock (but no racket)
Ching Yuet Tang
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From valuable friends to impure evil: How the Muslim world’s opinion of dogs changed
Alan Mikhail
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In photos: From ornate to simple, bindings on manuscripts from Tipu Sultan’s court
Ursula Sims-Williams
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How Ramachandra Guha came to write ‘India After Gandhi’, the first popular post-1947 history
Ramachandra Guha
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Strings attached: A short history of the Western classical guitar in India
Kuldeep Barve
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Ancient ruins keep being ‘discovered’, but were they ever really lost?
Christopher Begley
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The Indian adventures of Amelia Earhart before she disappeared into oblivion
Anvar Alikhan
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How a Hindu temple was renovated by a Muslim and a Sufi shrine revamped by a Sikh in Pakistan
Haroon Khalid
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Watch: Journey of the treadmill from a prison punishment to a self-inflicted one
Scroll Staff
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June 25: Even if you forget the Emergency of 1975, these seven books will remind you
Devapriya Roy
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These two books reveal how Tamil enterprise and Bombay merchants helped build business in India
Sarojesh Mukherjee
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To aid its global rise, China is reconstructing its history to show itself as peace-loving
Suisheng Zhao
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Indian Railways has long thrived in the popular imagination. Is this cultural story about to end?
Huzaifa Omair Siddiqi
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‘Facts are not truth’: Hilary Mantel explains why fantasy must inhabit historical fiction
Michael Durrant, The Conversation
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Everyone can now read this breathtaking eyewitness account of the 1857 mutiny
Zahir Dehlvi
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Readers’ comments: ‘Kashmir belongs equally to Pandits who were driven out, Harsh Mander’
Scroll
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Royal companions and warriors: How elephants have been depicted in Asia’s history and mythology
Sud Chonchirdsin