Shells, songs and bombs: How Indians experienced World War I on the home front

The First World War was not merely fought in Europe, it also changed life in India.

George Morton-Jack

· 4 hours ago

How fake news may have shaped the future of a Tamil empire in medieval India

The author of a novel about Rajendra Chola delves into the provocation for an Indian kingdom to invade Indonesia in the 11th century.

Aditya Iyengar

· Nov 11, 2018 · 12:30 pm

‘Streets...were littered with dead’: Old reports recount the 1918 flu epidemic in India

Official documents in the India Office Records record the outbreak, progress and aftermath of a disease for which no one was prepared.

Antonia Moon

· Nov 05, 2018 · 09:30 pm

How British viceroy Mountbatten helped Vallabhbhai Patel integrate princely states into Indian Union

He helped the Congress in order to cement good ties between the British and India post 1947

Shoaib Daniyal

· Oct 31, 2018 · 10:30 am

Photos: When a British intelligence officer documented his 1906 trip to the Persian Gulf and Iraq

Wilfrid Malleson covered Muscat, Kuwait, Basra, Baghdad and Mohammerah, among other places.

Louis Allday

· Oct 24, 2018 · 09:30 pm

How Britain sought to drum up support for the Allies in Indonesia during WWII

The Ministry of Information wanted to circulate portraits of Muslim rulers who had pledged their support to the war effort.

Susannah Gillard

· Oct 22, 2018 · 09:30 pm

A far cry from Adityanath’s Hindutva, the Nath Yogi tradition has a history of religious pluralism

The movement had resisted the application of fixed religious identities of Hindu or Muslim, scholars have found.

Hammad Khan

· Oct 07, 2018 · 06:30 pm

Why the real history of a civilisation is not represented by its monuments and heritage sites

Mutual aid, social cooperation, civic activism, hospitality or simply caring for others: these are the kind of things that actually go to make civilisations.

David Wengrow, Aeon

· Oct 04, 2018 · 11:30 pm

Why Ramachandra Guha is wrong to compare Jinnah with Amit Shah

The more one learns of the BJP chief’s political agenda, the more outrageous it appears to equate him with Pakistan’s founder, writes historian Joya Chatterji.

Joya Chatterji

· Sep 30, 2018 · 08:00 am

A typical day in the life of an East India Company director in the early 19th century

The Court of Directors met at East India House in London at least once a week – sometimes even two or three times.

Margaret Makepeace

· Sep 24, 2018 · 01:30 pm

NRC debate: How the 1947 Sylhet partition led to Assam’s politics of the foreigner

Till the division, there were more Bengali speakers in Assam than Assamese speakers.

Shoaib Daniyal

· Aug 12, 2018 · 06:30 am

Crate digging: Discovery of Somali songs shows why the hunt for records is like cultural archaeology

A crate digger essentially builds a personal library of sonic texts that often can't be found on the internet or in official archives.

Michael Shakib Bhatch, The Conversation

· Aug 03, 2018 · 11:30 pm