History Sheet
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A ‘curious’ gold mask, four rings: When the UK’s India Office sold jewels and silver in 1862
The ornaments had transferred to the India Office from the East India Company.
Margaret Makepeace
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For the British Indian army, maintaining soldiers’ gardens was serious business
When new troops moved into the barracks, regimental and company gardens were inspected and the cost of any necessary repairs was paid from the garden fund.
Margaret Makepeace
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Better urinals: How a sanitation panel aimed to improve life in Kolkata’s Fort William in 1860
Bad toilets and excessive drinking were the reasons for the rampant sickness in the station, administrators believed.
Lesley Shapland
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The real reason why Modi says what he does – Hindu India accepts it
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BJP’s street-fighters in coastal Karnataka want a share in power
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For better or for worse? Shifts in gender norms in India – in 12 charts
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Lok Sabha polls: Ladakh MP rallies supporters after BJP drops him from candidate list
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‘Supporter of BJP met me’: Surat candidates on the various reasons they withdrew from the election
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1,000 years before the Greeks, ancient Babylonians had developed a unique form of trigonometry
Clay tablets retrieved from the lost cities in present-day Iraq show one of the oldest examples of applied geometry from the ancient world.
Daniel Mansfield, The Conversation
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A tiny police wing is trying to bring back the thousands of idols stolen from Tamil Nadu
But is the department any match for the smugglers?
Vinita Govindarajan
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These illustrated Persian manuscripts depict the highs and lows of love
Be it platonic adoration, romantic affection or star-crossed disappointment, Persian poetry has something to say about it all.
Saqib Baburi
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Watch: K-Pop singer Aoora sings in Assamese as he collaborates with Nilotpal Bora in a new folk song
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Watch Anu Malik and Sonu Nigam’s impromptu performance of ‘Main Hoon Na’ at Farah Khan’s home
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Watch: Doordarshan newsreader faints on live TV in Kolkata owing to severe heat
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Watch: Over 350 ballerinas come together to break the world record for standing on tip toes
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The homecoming: Why the US wants to claim remains of American airmen scattered across Arunachal
But what of the hundreds of soldiers who died building the Ledo Road from India to China?
Ipsita Chakravarty
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Planes over Aizawl: A cautionary tale for a government planning to use air power against Maoists
In 1966, the Indian Air Force managed to crush the Mizo uprising. It also helped usher in two more decades of insurgency.
Ipsita Chakravarty