When an American woman briefly became a spokesperson for anti-casteism in India

Anu Kumar

· Jul 25, 2023 · 11:30 am

Fiction: Anjum Hasan’s new, darkly funny novel explores the conflicting views of the past today

Anjum Hasan

· Jul 19, 2023 · 05:30 pm

A new book recounts how princely states were coaxed, coerced, or bludgeoned into joining India

John Zubrzycki

· Jul 19, 2023 · 08:30 am

Hard work, sacrifice, gender: What the visceral afterlife of the Partition in India reveals

Pranav Kohli

· Jul 15, 2023 · 08:30 am

What a tiny difference in two very similar portraits of a sultan tells us about 16th-century India

Kamayani Sharma

· Jul 11, 2023 · 11:48 am

Can graves be an important key for understanding the ideology of the Indus Valley Civilisation?

Akinori Uesugi

· Jul 10, 2023 · 08:30 am

‘Sawaneh-i Dehli’: An important book that shows the hold of colonialism on the minds of its subjects

Mohammad Asim Siddiqui

· Jul 08, 2023 · 01:30 pm

Sam Higginbottom wanted to help India. So he devoted his life to helping its farmers

Anu Kumar

· Jul 08, 2023 · 11:30 am

How Gujarati merchants helped Zambia attain independence

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Jul 04, 2023 · 11:30 am

New in nonfiction: The working class and labour unions’ participation in the Indian freedom movement

David Hardiman

· Jun 26, 2023 · 08:30 am

How some philosophers from Oxford University brought modernity to philosophy

Andrew Milne, The Conversation

· Jun 25, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Spy vs Seditionist: What British agents thought of Indian revolutionaries in Japan

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Jun 19, 2023 · 11:30 am

A robot in a 400-year-old painting of Jahangir is a lesson in how rulers project global power

Kamayani Sharma

· Jun 18, 2023 · 11:30 am

How a stint in Bombay helped Georg Bühler become one of the most prominent Indologists in Europe

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Jun 10, 2023 · 11:30 am

A new book offers detailed historical accounts of the Sultans of Oman in the 19th century

Seema Alavi

· Jun 07, 2023 · 08:30 am

Ranajit Guha (1923-2023): The thinker and historian was also an idealistic political activist

Somak Mukherjee

· Jun 04, 2023 · 07:30 am

Non-fiction books in June: Histories, memoirs, and biographies for a new month of reading

Sayari Debnath

· Jun 03, 2023 · 03:30 pm

Historical fiction: Can Begum Hazrat Mahal’s rebel army fight the British and secure Awadh’s future?

Malathi Ramachandran

· May 30, 2023 · 05:30 pm

How did the Indian langur end up in a prehistoric mural in Greece?

Kamayani Sharma

· May 30, 2023 · 11:30 am

On a propaganda tour in India, the first Black Ivy League professor found complexities and paradoxes

Anu Kumar

· May 27, 2023 · 11:30 am