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The relevance of an idea called Ambedkar

The trajectory of moral politics

A novelist comes to the conclusion that the Amritsar massacre was not a discrete event

The forgotten United Bengal proposal and its lingering aftertaste

Two historians at the intersection of race, sex and an emergent nationalism

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An 18th century Kerala king starred in the longest war waged against British forces in the subcontinent