re-examining history
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How colonial rule could mean spinsterhood for the women of the East India Company
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Priya Satia: How modern empire broke the empire mould
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In the shadow of Partition, state-sanctioned atrocities aimed to wipe out Meo Muslims in Mewat
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The forgotten massacre of Jammu Muslims in 1947 set a template of impunity and violence
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75 years since the founding of Israel, a lingering question: Can it be Jewish and democratic?
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Not just Alexander the Great, there are myths around his pet dog too
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Sponsian had been dismissed as a ‘fake’ Roman emperor. My research shows he was real
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How Shivaji’s latest biographer researched the life story of the Maratha emperor
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Robert Hubert and mystery of the 1666 Great Fire of London
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Amitav Ghosh on Priya Satia’s books: ‘History has given us tools for upending dominant narratives’
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How the French meddled in the 15th century English civil wars
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Web series ‘The Underground Railroad’ wants to change the way we think about Black American history
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South Asian history is hidden around Berkeley. Two Indian Americans are bringing it into the light
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How Ira Mukhoty’s biography of Akbar often uses unorthodox methods to chronicle a grand life story
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Did Indigenous Canadians help Indian immigrants aboard the Komagata Maru in 1914?
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Babri Masjid case: Archaeological evidence rules out present-day Ayodhya as city of sacred texts
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A 210,000-year-old skull found in Greece may change what we know about early human migration
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Opinion: Ranjit Singh’s new statue in Lahore isn’t the problem – the way it’s being celebrated is
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How the Inkas governed, thrived and fell without a written alphabet
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Our ancestors had dental problems too – even without the sugary drinks and sweets
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What history tells us: Rani Padmini travelled far and wide, from Rajasthan to Bollywood via Bengal
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Historical fact check: Did Lokmanya Tilak really plan a ‘Hindu invasion’ of British India?
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Can we ever find Jesus’s DNA? A researcher met the scientists who are trying to find out
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Watch: Are we using the wrong calendar to mark human history?
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How the Victorians cheated time and space by laying the first trans-Atlantic telegraphy cable
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Of freedom fighters and forgotten heroes: How India airbrushes its past to whitewash its present
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Stranger than Strangelove: How the US planned for nuclear war in the 1950s
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History body plans new research on Subhas Chandra Bose
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Forgotten resistance: the Italian freedom fighters dropped from our history books