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Audrey Truschke, Historian

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Reclaiming the Mughal

The Cultural Campaign of RSS: War Over the Mind of India

Even as RSS tries to add new icons to its intellectual history, it wants to redeem scholars denigrated by the leftist establishment

Indian Railways: Track Record

The evolution of one of the world’s largest transport systems is a study on India’s cultural history as well

Beauty of the Moment

The violence of the subcontinent echoes in Nadeem Aslam’s new novel

Rani of Jhansi Regiment: Sisters in Arms

The little known, and thoroughly fascinating, truth about the Rani of Jhansi Regiment

The Beauty of Disruption

Where East and West look hard and longingly at one another

The Fall of Man in the Age of Anger

What makes this text an indispensible addition to the canon of intellectual histories is not just the urgency of its argument but the delightful march-past of writers

The Living and the Dead

Abraham Lincoln mourns the death of his son in this first novel of an American master

Movie Review: The Great Wall

The movie sits uneasily on the dividing line between propaganda and art

India’s Missing Tryst With History

And Sanjay Leela Bhansali, the victim of it

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