historical writings
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In Turkic literature, Alexander the Great appears as both a legend and a divine king
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How a researcher found, almost accidentally, the first modern Indian treatise on government
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Biography controversy: How do you write the life story of someone who has long been dead?
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How reformer Savitribai Phule’s first biography got written despite a lack of detail about her life
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How the 50 ‘birth-tales’ of Buddha spread from Thailand to the rest of Southeast Asia
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Portugal gifted Bombay to Britain in 1661. So why did a Portuguese militia stay behind?
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From India to Iraq, the epic warrior Rustam appears in manuscripts with red hair. Why?
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Photos: How an Arabic cosmographical text ‘went viral’ in 16th-century India
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Photos: The tragic tale of Vietnamese heroine Kieu, from the epic poem ‘Kim Van Kieu’
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Glimpses of Malay manuscript ‘Adat Aceh’, a 17th century guide to statecraft from a great sultanate
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Husband-hunting in the Raj: Here’s the advice British women received when traveling to India
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How 12th century Persian poet Omar Khayyám inspired a hedonistic counterculture in Victorian England
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The British Library’s oldest Qur’an manuscript now online
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A dictionary packed with stories from 18th century Delhi