What is common to Morarji Desai, Charan Singh, VP Singh, Chandra Shekhar, Deve Gowda, Inder Gujral?

And why is Atal Behari Vajpayee missing in this list?

Ajaz Ashraf

· Feb 13, 2019 · 07:30 am

Lesson from 1979 Janata Party fiasco: Coalitions are sunk by national parties not regional ones

Not quite what Narendra Modi and Amit Shah would want the India to remember.

Ajaz Ashraf

· Feb 12, 2019 · 07:00 am

Colonisation of the Americas killed 10% of world population and caused global cooling

No records of the size of Native American populations before 1492 and the arrival of Europeans survive. A new study has found answers.

Chris Brierley, The Conversation

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Alexander Koch, The Conversation

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Mark Maslin, The Conversation

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Simon Lewis, The Conversation

· Feb 03, 2019 · 11:30 pm

Gandhi assassination: Was Nathuram Godse’s co-conspirator driven to hate by his father’s cruelty?

Madanlal Pahwa was 21 when he detonated a bomb at Gandhi’s prayer meeting in Delhi on January 20, days before the Mahatma was eventually killed.

Ajaz Ashraf

· Jan 30, 2019 · 08:00 am

Why the Meo Muslims in Mewat remember Mahatma Gandhi in December every year

In 1947, Gandhi visited a village in the region to urge the Muslims living there not to leave the land of their forefathers for Pakistan.

Radhika Bordia

· Jan 30, 2019 · 07:30 am

Islands renamed: National memory of Netaji’s Andamans visit is at variance with local recollections

Subhas Chandra Bose visited the archipelago in 1943 during a brutal Japanese occupation.

Jayant Dasgupta

· Jan 22, 2019 · 08:00 am

Crusaders were not just soldiers and merchants as is commonly believed – but also scholars

The Kingdom of Jerusalem, it turns out, was no intellectual desert.

Jonathan Rubin, Aeon

· Jan 20, 2019 · 11:30 pm

How a Pakistan minister’s gift to Mao turned the mango into a divine symbol in China

The king of fruits was a devotional object during the Cultural Revolution.

Mehreen Jamal

· Jan 16, 2019 · 01:30 pm

Lapis lazuli found hidden in ancient teeth reveals the forgotten role of women in medieval arts

Male monks were not the sole producers of books throughout the Middle Ages.

Anita Radini, The Conversation

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Monica Tromp, The Conversation

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Christina Warinner, The Conversation

· Jan 15, 2019 · 08:30 pm

Why did British prime minister Attlee think Bengal was going to be an independent country in 1947?

It is little known, but in 1947, along with India and Pakistan, there almost emerged a third sovereign country: United Bengal.

Shoaib Daniyal

· Jan 06, 2019 · 08:00 am

Arrival of the Black Ships: A turning point that saw Japan emerge from centuries of self-isolation

The existential threat posed by the American warships in 1853 led to deep divisions with the ruling elite and the population.

Hamish Todd

· Dec 26, 2018 · 09:30 pm

As Andaman islands are renamed after Bose, a reminder: Netaji was intensely disliked by locals

The Japanese occupation of the Andamans was brutal. As a result, their allies, the Indian National Army earned the wrath of the residents.

Naresh Fernandes

· Dec 25, 2018 · 12:35 pm