Indian history

The Passion of Pazhassi Raja

Ullekh NP

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

Return to Jallianwala Bagh

Navtej Sarna

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

Rescuing the First BJP PM

Swapan Dasgupta

From the unwarranted appropriation of those who just want to hate Modi

Who Are We?

Mani Shankar Aiyar

Tracing the evolution of India’s unique identity

Updating History

Nanditha Krishna

New discoveries mean erasing some of the old

Salman Rushdie Comes Home

S Prasannarajan

Words sustain life in his new novel set in India. It’s a fairy tale of the present accentuated by history and mythology, written by a storyteller schooled in the epic Fabulism of the East

A Future for History

Madhavankutty Pillai

The digital museum of epigraphy will make the past interesting and accessible to everyone

History According to Bhyrappa

Makarand R Paranjape

Hindutva and Swaraj VIII

To Die or Not to Die

Ira Mukhoty

The perils of a binary reading of sources at odds with a complicated reality

The Making of an Indophile

Madhulika Liddle

Wendy Doniger’s early impressions of the country, written in her 20s

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