'Jai Shri Ram' might be a new slogan – but the use of Ram as a political symbol is 800 years old

It might be incredibly popular in Indian politics today, but the slogan has a rather short life in the popular domain.

Shoaib Daniyal

· Jun 28, 2019 · 06:30 am

Did England’s King Alfred the Great send two envoys to Christian shrines in India in 9th century?

A passage in the ‘Anglo-Saxon Chronicle’ has long been the subject of intrigue. Could it have been true? And what does it tell us about Christianity in India?

Caitlin R Green

· Jun 26, 2019 · 11:30 am

In photos: A potted history of the pencil

The word comes from the Old French term ‘pincel’ and Latin term ‘penicillus’.

Alan E Cole

· May 31, 2019 · 09:30 pm

The story of a lost princely state founded by a veteran of Ahmad Shah Abdali’s invasion of India

Subah Khan Tanoli’s Amb-Darband in what is now Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was entirely submerged by the Tarbela dam in the 1970s.

Jahandad Khan

· Apr 07, 2019 · 08:30 pm

Not only Kashmir: Till 1950, every Indian province had a prime minister

Since 1937, while the Indian government was completely in British hands, there was democratic government in the provinces, each headed by a prime minister.

Shoaib Daniyal

· Apr 06, 2019 · 07:30 am

Mayalee: The story of an Indian dancing girl who stood up to the British Raj

Her appearance in the East India Company’s records tell us about the colonial state’s interactions with the people whose lives they were encroaching upon.

Katherine Butler Schofield

· Mar 31, 2019 · 09:30 pm

Gujarat’s medieval cities were once the biggest in the world – as a viral video reminds us

Today, their significance has been largely forgotten outside the small world of professional historians.

Aparna Kapadia

· Mar 30, 2019 · 08:00 am

Maria Sibylla Merian: The 17th-century entomologist who proved that caterpillars turn to butterflies

Her meticulous observations laid the groundwork for the fields of entomology, animal behaviour and ecology – yet not enough is known about her.

Tanya Latty, The Conversation

· Feb 23, 2019 · 09:30 pm

Frog eyes, finger nails and eggs: A guide to making love potions from old Hebrew manuscripts

These gems from the British library’s collection combine folk medicine with magic and astrology.

Zsofi Buda

· Feb 20, 2019 · 09:30 pm

Beyond Gandhi and King: A project traces the solidarity between Indians and African Americans

Anirvan Chatterjee speaks to Scroll.in about his initiative The Secret History of South Asian and African American Solidarity.

Soumya Rao

· Feb 18, 2019 · 03:30 pm

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