TCA Raghavan, Historian

Srinath Raghavan, Historian

The Past is Unpredictable

A Million Multiplicities

The Indian self is a work in progress

History Minus Hinduism

Time to save textbooks from Leftist historians

Ma Ganga by Another Name

The Mekong region and our Gangetic civilisation share an ancient past that enriched both

Temptations of a Greater India

The legacy of an ambitious project in history

Open Diary

Nehru vs Patel: Unity in Diversity

Let Narendra Modi too bring Nehru and Patel together in his vision for India

Nehru vs Patel: The Towering Two

Nehru and Patel didn’t fight. They worked as a team from Independence to Patel’s death in 1950, with Nehru as the leader.However, these two towering personalities were never similar. Their approaches were divergent. In time, they would probably have parted ways. That parting didn’t happen

The Uses and Abuses of What-if History

A past powered by the Dissenting Strongman and the Dreamy Intellectual enriches the legacy of freedom—and the political content of the present