indian history
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Why have Indian historians failed to combat ‘WhatsApp history’?
Shoaib Daniyal
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Podcast: Child widow to single mother, political icon – how Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay blazed a trail
Dinyar Patel
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Biography: How Coomar Narain made a career of leaking confidential bureaucratic documents
Kallol Bhattacharjee
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‘Absurdly extravagant and ridiculously curious’: What the British thought of emperor Asaf-ud-Daula
Ira Mukhoty
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‘Panic Sunday’: The day in 1857 when Wajid Ali Shah was arrested on charges of conspiracy
Sudipta Mitra
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Ballot boxes, inking fingers: An 85-year-old remembers India’s first General Election
Suhas Phadke
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Is the 2024 Lok Sabha election India’s last chance before the point of no return?
Sajjad Hassan
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Twentieth-century texts show the relationship between Muslim tailors, their trade and their faith
Amanda Lanzillo
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How Lala Lajpat Rai reinterpreted India’s ‘Muslim’ history to highlight peaceful co-existence
Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav
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Why a US maths professor created a board game about the medieval Deccan empires
Saverio E Spagnolie
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A historian re-examines India’s past through its relationship with the Indian Ocean in this book
Radhika Seshan
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Emperor Ashoka’s edicts prove that he valued secularism and non-violence above all else
Upinder Singh
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Elizabeth Lhost’s ‘Everyday Islamic Law and the Making of Modern South Asia’ wins Karwaan Book Award
Scroll Staff
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When Dom Moraes met fellow-writer Sunil Gangopadhyay in Kolkata for a profile
Dom Moraes
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Tracing change and continuity through a dazzling history of Indian jewellery
Aparna Kapadia
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How Jawaharlal Nehru helped build a new crop of leaders in Africa
Ajay Kamalakaran
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From one historian to another: Remembering Ranajit Guha, who redefined Indian historiography
Ramachandra Guha
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What will be the impact of erasing the Mughals from Indian history?
Shoaib Daniyal
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How did kingdoms in Bengal, Deccan break away from the Delhi Sultanate to build their own legacies?
Rudrangshu Mukherjee
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As Kolkata’s Jewish community dwindles, one woman dreams of the legacy they should leave behind
Jael Silliman