The oldest surviving Zoroastrian scriptures were found not in Iran or India, but in China

In its Epic Iran exhibition, the British Library will be displaying its unrivalled collection of manuscripts.

Ursula Sims-Williams

· Sep 01, 2021 · 01:30 pm

An unusual annotation in Bengal records from 1777 recalls the famous life of Catherine Grand

Born in Tranquebar, Grand had a short-lived marriage in India, before she moved to Europe.

Lesley Shapland

· Aug 23, 2021 · 11:30 pm

Long before Britney Spears, conservatorships were used to deprive Native Americans of their wealth

US courts used to declare them incompetent to handle more than a very limited sum of money without any finding of mental incapacity.

Andrea Seielstad, The Conversation

· Aug 18, 2021 · 11:30 pm

Oriental cults? Factional rivalries? The mystery of the ‘Hindu murders’ in 20th century US

A spate of murders of Punjabi men in California’s Central Valley region sparked a guessing game in the media.

Anuradha Kumar, The India Forum

· Aug 11, 2021 · 11:30 am

Attempts to access the Mountbattens’ diaries that cover India’s Partition are being stonewalled

An immense trove of important historical material has been quietly made public in the UK. But some of it is still out of reach.

Jenny Hocking, The Conversation

· Aug 04, 2021 · 01:30 pm

Pilgrimage to India: When Martin Luther King Jr followed in Gandhi’s footsteps

After a month-long visit in 1959, the civil rights leader was convinced that non-violence was the best way forward for the African-American struggle.

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Jul 14, 2021 · 11:30 am

Early feminist, pioneering novelist: Recalling colonial-era Marathi Christian reformer Baba Padmanji

Far from being a European lackey, as he is sometimes characterised, he was a visionary whose contributions undergird the history of modernity in India.

Deepra Dandekar

· Jul 04, 2021 · 11:30 am

Union vs Centre: Why DMK wants to use the ‘correct’ term for the government of India

While ‘Union government’ is the modern term, the colonial phrase ‘Central government’ is still widely used by Indians.

Sruthisagar Yamunan

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Shoaib Daniyal

· Jun 15, 2021 · 09:00 am

Why the Portuguese administrators in India tried to stop the handover of Bombay to the British

In return for the ‘seven islands’ and other privileges, England had made many promises to Lisbon, not all of which it kept.

Luis Dias

· Jun 10, 2021 · 11:30 am

How the opening of the Suez Canal transformed Mumbai – and its sex trade

The city’s port boomed and Eastern European women began to work in its brothels.

Scroll Staff

· Mar 30, 2021 · 06:30 am

Makhan Singh: The Punjabi radical who fought for freedom in not one but two countries

The trade unionist in Kenya recognised that to achieve freedom, it is important to first challenge the politics of indifference and segregation.

Arko Dasgupta

· Jan 23, 2021 · 06:30 am

Three times when the Mughal military juggernaut ran up against the immutable force of nature

There were two seasons the armies of the Mughal empire often dreaded: winter and monsoon.

Pratyay Nath

· Jan 11, 2021 · 11:30 am