British colonialism

A Return to 1857

Nikita Doval

The remains of a massacred battalion of mutinying Indian soldiers raise new questions about how the uprising is remembered

Mysore’s Allies

Ira Mukhoty

The French connection behind the painting that shows Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan defeating Company forces at the Battle of Pollilur

The Right Rebels

Vinay Lal

Pramod Kapoor restores the Royal Indian Navy Mutiny to its proper place in the history of the freedom struggle

Race, Corruption, Morality and the Making of Anglo-India

MJ Akbar

Justice Pulbandi and the hanged Maharaja

A Return to Hindutva

Arvind Sharma

For Savarkar, it was religious pluralism sustained by cultural nationalism

Redeeming the Rani

Rudrangshu Mukherjee

Seeking Lakshmibai between history and legend

The Truth About Aurangzeb

Aditya Kuvalekar and Kedar Phalke

Was the Mughal emperor a fanatic?

Misreading the Mahatma

Vinay Lal

Gandhi was not enough for Naipaul. Why he was wrong

When Boris Comes to Bharat

Sunanda K Datta-Ray

Still in search of a post-imperial purpose

An East Bengal In West Bengal

MJ Akbar

The 2021 struggle for power is shaped by history, geography, demography—and a miracle by the mahatma, argues MJ Akbar

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British colonialism

A Return to 1857

Mysore’s Allies

The Right Rebels

Race, Corruption, Morality and the Making of Anglo-India

A Return to Hindutva

Redeeming the Rani

The Truth About Aurangzeb

Misreading the Mahatma

When Boris Comes to Bharat

An East Bengal In West Bengal

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