Gurjar queens, Vokkaliga warriors: How BJP is inventing history for a new Hindutva caste politics

Historians suggest that the heroes the BJP is invoking to allegedly attract castes either do not exist or their role is being exaggerated.

Nachiket Deuskar

· Mar 18, 2023 · 06:30 am

Why more American cities are choosing to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day instead of Columbus Day

The official celebration of Native Americans represents the fruits of a decades-long effort.

Malinda Maynor Lowery, The Conversation

· Oct 19, 2019 · 11:30 pm

Why Haiti founding father Jean-Jacques Dessalines’s legacy has been so controversial in the US

A Brooklyn street has been renamed to celebrate the Haitian slave turned president, who was for years memorialised as a ruthless brute.

Julia Gaffield, The Conversation

· Sep 03, 2018 · 09:30 pm

Tulip mania: The classic story of a Dutch financial bubble is mostly wrong

Bitcoin is being compared to tulips, but I researched tulip mania for years and found no evidence of mass bankruptcies or economic meltdown.

Anne Goldgar, The Conversation

· Feb 17, 2018 · 09:30 pm

From valuable friends to impure evil: How the Muslim world’s opinion of dogs changed

Everyone today thinks that Islam and dogs don’t mix. That wasn’t always the case.

Alan Mikhail

· Jul 23, 2017 · 11:30 am

Contrary to popular belief, Karachi's Wazir Mansion was probably not Jinnah's birthplace

There are contradictory claims about Mohammad Ali Jinnah's date and place of birth.

Akhtar Balouch

· Apr 16, 2017 · 08:30 pm

Museums are returning indigenous human remains but progress on repatriating objects is slow

The question of repatriating objects is clearly more complex than returning human remains.

Myles Russell Cook, The Conversation

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Lynette Russell, The Conversation

· Dec 03, 2016 · 03:30 pm

HMS Terror wreck found – but what happened to her doomed crew? Here’s the science

168 years on, experts are finally uncovering the secrets of the tragic expedition to the Northwest Passage.

Keith Millar, The Conversation

· Sep 21, 2016 · 03:30 pm

Australia’s ‘history wars’ reignite

Debate over 'discovery' of Australia is alive and well.

Tony Taylor, The Conversation

· Apr 05, 2016 · 03:30 pm

Flat wrong: the misunderstood history of flat Earth theories

We often hear that most people throughout history believed the world was flat. But that's not entirely true.

Chris Fleming, The Conversation

· Feb 01, 2016 · 03:30 pm

Netanyahu, the Grand Mufti and the Holocaust: Why it is important to get the historical facts right

The Israeli prime minister's comments that an Arab leader convinced Hitler to carry out the Holocaust are a distortion of history.

Rainer Schulze, The Conversation

· Oct 27, 2015 · 11:30 pm

Why Teen Murti Bhavan should not be turned into a 'museum of governance'

In its incomplete, idiosyncratic storytelling, the museum is very much a creature of the 1960s and a part of history itself.

Ipsita Chakravarty

· Sep 09, 2015 · 06:30 pm