History Remembered
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When Nehru trekked through the Himalayas to build diplomatic bridges with Bhutan
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Judi Singh was the ‘velvet voice’ of Canadian jazz – until history left her behind
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How Canada exoticised its early Indian migrants
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The forgotten plan to station Canadian soldiers in British India
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How British paranoia cast Afghans as criminals in colonial India
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In London, an exhibition reveals the fascinating lives of the Duleep Singh princesses
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How Partition violence affected Hindus and Sikhs in Afghanistan
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The strike that united Indian and Pakistani workers in Kuwait
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When India began to worry about Iranians settling in Bombay
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How India found common ground with Iran after the Shah’s fall in 1979
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Why a proposal to resettle Parsis in Iran in the 1940s never took off
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The Goan priest who helped save Catholicism in Sri Lanka
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How the Cairo Fire of 1952 tested young India’s cautious foreign policy
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Why India waited two years before recognising Israel
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What Ceylon looked like through the eyes of KPS Menon
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What an intrepid English traveller saw in Balochistan in the late 19th century
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When India needed support, Venezuela stood firmly by its side
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Carriages, bazaars and colonial views: An American woman writer’s visit to 19th-century India
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Banned from India: Amid a red scare, the British Raj blacklisted revolutionaries and a dancer
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Amid war, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan reimagined India-China ties through philosophy
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When Sikhs chased a new world in Argentina – and found a nightmare instead
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The Indian doctors who risked their lives to support China in its war with Japan
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Enemy Foreigners: The Thais caught in Britain’s wartime net across colonial India
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Commerce amid suspicion: Inside Russia’s 19th-century push to trade with India
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Love, marriage and masalas: The Indian experience in 1970s Soviet Union
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Better than First Class: The luxurious beginnings of international air travel in India
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How a little-known Punjabi director became a pioneer of Malay cinema
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How a 19th-century Tamil temple in Bangkok became a spiritual sanctuary for all
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From plague to prejudice: What a Scottish academic’s memoir tells us about 19th-century Bombay
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The American journalist who predicted the India-China economic divide in the 1950s
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How Jinnah survived an assassination attempt in Bombay
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From courtroom to countryside: A British judge’s love affair with India
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Why Indians were discouraged from migrating to Cuba in the early 20th century
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What a 1944 tally of foreigners revealed about wartime India
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Why the Indian Army continued to fight Britain’s battles even after World War II ended
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Why newly-independent India barred an official from accepting a Cuban honour
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A look at 15th-century India through the eyes of a Genoan merchant
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When India nearly barred Israel from a Davis Cup tie in Delhi
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When US media feared ‘another Cuba’ in the Himalayas and Indian Ocean
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As Afghanistan warmed up to India in the late 1940s, strains with Pakistan began to emerge
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When the British considered punishing Iran for the harassment of Indian pilgrims
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Ruined reputation, deep debt: How the British treated an Iranian governor exiled in Pune
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How India got entangled in the geopolitical games in 1950s Ceylon
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‘A graceful, magnetic speaker’: How Susie Sorabji captivated US audiences in early 20th century
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Praise with stereotypes: How Western journalists portrayed Jaipur in early 20th century
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‘A warning to all’: What Rajiv Gandhi wrote in the guestbook of a WWII memorial in Belarus
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Why a Gandhian social worker was deported by the French from Indochina
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Why South East Asia once considered economic integration with India
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When over 2,000 Indian POWS on a Japanese ‘hell ship’ died after being torpedoed by a US submarine
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India’s friendship with Jordan was catalysed by a meeting in Tehran in 1949
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Ripples of fear reached India as Palestinians revolted against the British in the 1930s
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How the world treated India’s diaspora at the time of its independence
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How Hindi teachers helped strengthen India’s ties with the Caribbean
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Before the 1971 war, India and Pakistan were skirmishing on another front: Brazil
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‘Send millions of Indian peasants to Brazil to eradicate poverty and starvation’
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A view of 19-century Bombay and its Parsis through the eyes of a Russian poet
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What American steel baron Andrew Carnegie thought of Varanasi and the Taj
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How Dutch-ruled Jaffna became a major economic hub in South Asia
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How an Indian monk contributed to the understanding of Buddhism in China
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Buddhism’s spread from India to China started with a Han emperor’s dream
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How the Sassoons of Bombay became one of China’s wealthiest families
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What Mahatma Gandhi taught the Indian business community in Sri Lanka
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‘Not an interesting place’: What Arthur Conan Doyle thought of Bombay after a brief visit
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How Sikkim’s beauty enthralled Nicholas Roerich
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How Hanoi became a hub for French scholars studying India
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Hot, dusty and tiring: A young American dancer’s impressions of 1920s India
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What Don Bradman thought of the first Indian team that toured Australia
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A Colombo-born thinker played a key role in making Indian freedom a cause celebre on US campuses
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An American journalist’s friendship with Mahatma Gandhi gave India a megaphone around the world
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At a time when Americans held odd ideas about India, a poet set the record straight
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How Dawoodi Bohras came to be seen as model migrants in Sri Lanka
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How the Indian freedom struggle inspired a future Sri Lankan president
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Why the last king of Kandy had to spend his final years in an Indian fort
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How a hockey club helped Punjabi immigrants integrate into Canadian society
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A short history of how India became a global powerhouse in hockey in the 1920s
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‘Hockey rajahs’: When Dhyan Chand’s India cast a spell on Australia
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Why Rabindranath Tagore saw great potential in Canada
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How Indians subverted Canada’s racist immigration policy – with a little help from a Japanese firm
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‘One of the greatest statesmen’: When Canada celebrated an Indian prime minister’s visit
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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