Literature and history
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How did Surat become the setting for an 18th-century French story?
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Who was Vishwanath Singh Bahadur? This is how a queer Maharajah and his court seduced an Englishman
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Nawab Ghani, the Judas of Dhaka, and writer Shahidul Zahir’s unsparing portrait of him
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India at 75: What is the place of women’s writings in the historical imagination of the nation?
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Why are we still fascinated by tales of the ‘shikaar’ despite the ecological horrors of hunting?
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From clothing to recreation: An 1847 book gave British women advice on what to carry to India
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How the shadow of the battle of Karbala has shaped Urdu literature
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After ‘Dunkirk’, a starter list of 10 engaging books (and a bonus) on India’s role in the World Wars
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What the Mountbattens’ younger daughter knew about their life in India and their open marriage
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Glimpses of a book on the Americas, published by the Ottoman Empire, that costs as much as a house
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Why ‘Ghachar Ghochar’ is the one novel that (presciently) sums up the state of the world today
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How Sri Lankan writers are (still) dealing with the 1983 riots in their fiction