History Revised
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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
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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
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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
Trending
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Why are Sikhs abroad more pro-Khalistan than community members living in India?
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Are your UPI payments farming your personal data without your consent?
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Digital India bill may change the internet as we know it
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UP man who rescued sarus crane booked under Wildlife Protection Act
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Netflix India’s latest mantra: ‘You can’t be successful globally without being successful locally’
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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
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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
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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
Video
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Watch: Rescuer scales 65-foot telecom tower in Pune to save bird tangled in kite string
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Watch: Major pipeline bursts in Mumbai’s Mulund, sends water gushing high into the air
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Watch: Musician plays Sidhu Moose Wala’s song ‘295’ on the sarangi in a shopping area in Chandigarh
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Watch: A group of Pakistani artists creates huge portrait of Shah Rukh Khan on a beach
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Watch: Thunderstorm wrecks cars, brings down power lines, in Dibrugarh, Assam
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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 & Lynette Russell, The Conversation
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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
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Australia’s ‘history wars’ reignite
Debate over 'discovery' of Australia is alive and well.
Tony Taylor, The Conversation
The Reel
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Netflix India’s latest mantra: ‘You can’t be successful globally without being successful locally’
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Start the week with a film: The very violent and very clever ‘Battle Royale’
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Review: ‘Boston Strangler’ looks for the woman in the serial killer story
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‘Chor Nikal Ke Bhaga’ review: A smart and entertaining thriller
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‘Jubilee’ trailer: Series is set in the Hindi film industry of the 1940s and 1950s
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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
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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
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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
The Field
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Watch: Sunil Chhetri relives iconic 2017 goal against Kyrgyz Republic
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Impact player at IPL 2023: All you need to know about the new rule in Indian Premier League
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Boxing: High Performance Director Dunne on the Nitu-Nikhat conundrum, selection policy and more
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Sports world daily: Tsitsipas, Rybakina progress in Miami; France, Netherlands win Euro qualifiers
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India vs Australia: Indore pitch rating reversed from poor to below average