Indian history

Controversy Is Always Welcome

Shaan Kashyap

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

Bhavya Dore

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

The Angel of History

Makarand R Paranjape

How did Hindus overcome the terror of terror?

The Open Skies of History

Makarand R Paranjape

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

Pepper Fray

V Shoba

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

Love in the Lost City

Ira Mukhoty

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

Bharat vs India

Arvind Sharma

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

The Churchill Paradox

Zareer Masani

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

The Mughal and the Tudor

TCA Raghavan

The two warrior poets are a perfect study in the elusive nature of power

History as Palimpsest

Narayani Basu

Over one hundred scholars map the origins and evolution of India

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Controversy Is Always Welcome

Seeking India

The Angel of History

The Open Skies of History

Pepper Fray

Love in the Lost City

Bharat vs India

The Churchill Paradox

The Mughal and the Tudor

History as Palimpsest

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