history
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The forgotten story of two Maulanas who mocked Jinnah's idea of Pakistan
Ajaz Ashraf
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From the Elgin Marbles to the Kohinoor: Why should cultural artefacts be more rooted than people?
Robert Seddon, The Conversation
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Beyond Harappa: Pakistanis struggle with the paradox of their Indian heritage
Haroon Khalid
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The Wright Brothers
Scroll Staff
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The harmonium was born in Europe – so how did it become synonymous with Indian music?
Vishwas R. Gaitonde
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A look at Jain manuscripts and drawings from the early 19th century
Jennifer Howes
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From French kissing to orgies: How the myth of the debauched French court originated
Una McIlvenna, The Conversation
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A modern metropolis born of a refugee crisis: The story of Shanghai
Xing Ruan, The Conversation
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Illustrations: Indian women's fashion from the early 20th century and before
Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri
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Podcast : How studying metals can help us piece together our past
Padmaparna Ghosh and Samanth Subramanian
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Here is a look at the only known Persian copy of 'The book of Sindbad'
Ursula Sims-Williams
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Of highs and lows: How Pakistani cricket changed forever
Nadeem F Paracha
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With Brexit a reality, a look back at six Indian referendums (and one that never happened)
Shoaib Daniyal
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The Brexit of 1947: ‘Scotland is more like Spain than Bengal is like the Punjab’
Ramachandra Guha
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Accommodation for 5,000? When Bahrain geared up to receive an Indian expeditionary force
Mark Hobbs
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How a British plan to convert an illiterate boy into a loyal maharaja failed
University of Cambridge
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How World War II spurred vaccine innovation
Kendall Hoyt, The Conversation
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Indus era dates back further than thought, older than Egypt, Mesopotamia: IIT, ASI scientists to TOI
Scroll Staff
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'Why can't we think of civilisation as a process of tracking cultures?': Historian Romila Thapar
Romila Thapar
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How maggots made it back into mainstream medicine
Carrie Arnold, Mosaic