Indian history

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

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

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Indian history

The Churchill Paradox

The Mughal and the Tudor

History as Palimpsest

The Passion of Pazhassi Raja

Return to Jallianwala Bagh

Rescuing the First BJP PM

Who Are We?

Updating History

Salman Rushdie Comes Home

A Future for History

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