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Indian history

The Myth of Isolation

Tamil Nadu was repeatedly invaded by northern rulers

Controversy Is Always Welcome

William Dalrymple is right about the failure of academic historians but ‘WhatsApp History’ should inspire us to write more histories instead of belittling those who seek new information

Seeking India

England’s first forays into the country and the lasting impacts

The Angel of History

How did Hindus overcome the terror of terror?

The Open Skies of History

What Walter Benjamin helps us understand about India’s ravaged past

Pepper Fray

How an estate in North Malabar became the ground zero of the spice wars

Love in the Lost City

A historian’s first novel is a romance set in 1857

Bharat vs India

The former has built a new Ram temple. What does the latter prefer?

The Churchill Paradox

Historians cannot square the wartime British prime minister’s fascination for India with his pessimism about its independent future

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