History Remembered
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‘Hand of God’: How a young Indian Navy sailor returned from the dead in Australia in 1951
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Why Britain rebuffed Australia’s effort to recruit Indian labour for its pearl fishing industry
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How Indians won civil rights in Australia
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When an emperor came calling on a newly independent India to learn from its early successes
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Why Bangkok was a hotbed of Indian revolutionaries during the First World War
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While Indians faced prejudice and abuse in Thailand, British colonists chose to dilly-dally
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Why German and Austrian civilians were once sent from Thailand to India to be imprisoned
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When an attack on Rajendra Prasad by Fascists in Austria caused panic in Bihar
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When Tagore’s grandnephew was arrested in Germany over a plot to kill Hitler
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What if the Andaman and Nicobar Islands had been a part of Burma, not India?
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Why the last king of Burma spent his final decades in Ratnagiri in isolation
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Why Burma was separated from British India
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When the British failed to stop Tamil labourers from emigrating to Madagascar
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Suffocation, silent rebels, survivors in the burnt remains: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 80 years on
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How an opera set in India propelled the career of one of France’s greatest composers
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When a spiritual guru put the Indian government in a fix with a request for dual citizenship
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How a British spy operation dragged neutral Goa into the bloodshed of the Second World War
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Why US and Japan chose Goa for a prisoner swap during World War II
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On Armistice Day, a message of peace from a memorial in France to Indians killed during World War I
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Goa’s entry into the railway age was set in motion with an engineering marvel
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Why the Jewish communities in India left a Zionist writer deeply disappointed
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When a business family in Bombay came to the aid of persecuted Jews from Jerusalem and Jaffa
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Disillusioned with Israel, hundreds of Jews chose to return to India in the 1950s
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Why a celebrated Russian artist chose to become an Indian citizen
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How camels from Punjab ended up joining a police force in southern Africa
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Bombay is better than Calcutta: Impressions of a US novelist in early 20th-century India
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After suppressing an Egyptian revolution, the British wanted to exile its leader to India
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How Sumatra became a popular destination for Sikh immigrants in the 19th century
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‘Our talks will be of lasting value to me’: When Kwame Nkrumah visited Nehru’s India
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Principle over prestige: When India forfeited a Davis Cup final to Apartheid South Africa
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Remembering the Parsi businessman who saved Gandhi’s life and backed his satyagraha in South Africa
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How Jawaharlal Nehru helped build a new crop of leaders in Africa
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How Gujarati merchants helped Zambia attain independence
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Spy vs Seditionist: What British agents thought of Indian revolutionaries in Japan
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How a stint in Bombay helped Georg Bühler become one of the most prominent Indologists in Europe
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Remembering the first major Carnatic music concert in the United States
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An Indian sanyasi’s myth-busting account of Tibet
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The story of the charming British conman who duped Bombay jewellers and still walked free
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Long before ‘Shree 420’ and ‘Awaara’, KA Abbas’s humanity was visible in a travelogue from China
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How Indians in Bukhara became chess pieces in the early 20th century Anglo-Russian rivalry
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Out to document biodiversity, a zoologist ended up giving a glimpse of Andaman and Nicobar’s jails
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This revered revolutionary was convinced that Bulgarians were descendants of Indians
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A reminder of a time when India welcomed refugees and cared for them
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No communal strife: What a globetrotter saw in Jammu and Kashmir in early 20th century
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When Indian labourers came to the rescue of the British Army in Mesopotamia
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Why pioneering explorer Alexandra David-Néel kept coming back to India again and again
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When the British secretly plotted to recruit Russians living in India against Nazi Germany
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Remembering the Gujarati lawyer who fought for Indian indentured labourers in Fiji and Mauritius
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How a German missionary changed the way houses were roofed in western India
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How MA Jinnah’s bargain with communal politics sealed his fate and that of India’s
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The story of the Indian immigrant who catalysed the New Zealand gold rush but died in near penury
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How an Irish poet and playwright became a part of India’s cultural mosaic
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Why a plan to link India and Burma with one of the world’s most scenic railroads didn’t work out
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Remembering the ‘Indian Titanic’ that was sunk by the Japanese
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One of the most compelling accounts of Western India in the 19th century was written by this woman
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A Kenyan Goan’s fight against colonialism in Africa and India
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The journey of a young Indian Jewish woman to becoming the first lady of Cyprus
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How Hindu cosmology influenced Romania’s national poet
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How a Lutheran missionary became the first cultural bridge between Tamil Nadu and Germany
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How a bank branch in Bombay helped establish a financial relationship between Japan and India
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In the story of Sindhi migration, Canary Islands played a small but important role
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When a temple in southern Laos was a major Hindu pilgrimage centre
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What happened when two aviators tried to fly nonstop from England to Bangalore in 1929
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How an architect couple seamlessly combined Indian and Finnish architecture in one Delhi building
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Why a Japanese spy suddenly embraced Islam in Bombay in the early 20th century
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Why the sacrifices of Abdul Khader and the Penang 20 freedom fighters bear special relevance in 2022
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Why did Sumatran kings once build a Buddhist monastery in Tamil Nadu?
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When Arab traders made a fortune in pearl trade in Bombay
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Why India signed a peace treaty with Thailand in 1946 – and how it set the tone for their relations
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The travelogue of an Indian maharaja who disliked China and loved Japan
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How India helped build Brazil’s enormous beef industry
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When India was a ‘land of diamonds’, Russian tsars eagerly tried to build ties with Aurangzeb
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An Indian community’s journey to becoming a major financial player in Singapore and Malaysia
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Remembering the Swiss photographer who popularised Indian temple sculptures in the US
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When a meeting with Ramana Maharshi inspired Somerset Maugham to explore Indian philosophy
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How a Punjabi-origin war hero became an important political figure in the Philippines
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An Indian army medical unit’s ‘selfless sacrifice’ saved countless lives in the Korean War
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How a steamer service from Calcutta transformed Rangoon from an overgrown village to a boomtown
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The mystery of an ancient Hindu-Buddhist kingdom in Malay Peninsula
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Before Armenians flourished in Bombay and Calcutta, they found a thriving home in Surat
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Gunavarman: The Kashmiri monk who helped spread Buddhism across Asia
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A brief history of how Parsis flourished in Zanzibar (with a cameo from Freddie Mercury)
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How a pioneering Greek scholar was robbed of the credit for translating Chanakya’s words in Sanskrit
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When a Belgian baron built a ‘Hindu palace’ near Cairo
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How Bombay deeply moved a Nobel-winning Swedish writer in the 1920s
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How a Dawoodi Bohra from British India became a business icon in East Africa in early 20th century
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One of the oldest surviving historical accounts of India was written by this Korean Buddhist monk
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When a small Sikh community thrived in an Iranian border town
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How a Hungarian scholar became the founder of modern Tibetology after reaching India
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Pilgrimages, conflicts and naked women: A Russian merchant’s impressions of 15th-century India
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The journey of Pallava script from Tamil Nadu to South East Asia
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When Maldives was ruled by Catholic kings living all the way in Goa
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Mariamman in Saigon: The story of Vietnam’s most famous Hindu temple
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Remembering SS Dwarka, the ship that carried Indian migrant workers to the Gulf for decades
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Gulf rupee: When the Reserve Bank of India played central banker in West Asia
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An Indian business community had thrived in Xinjiang before the Communists took over in China
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Why George Harrison and Ravi Shankar’s Concert for Bangladesh in 1971 was a gamechanger
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When playwright August Strindberg introduced a Swedish audience to Advaita Vedanta Hinduism in 1907
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Communal harmony and prudery about sex: An Italian composer’s impressions of 17th-century India
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Boat Mail: Remembering the train and steamer service from India to Ceylon