History revisited
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Hyderabad Liberation Day to be celebrated on September 17, says Union government
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‘It is my duty to arrest you’: Gerald Wilson, a Bombay police officer who took Gandhi into custody
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Give dogs a cup of tea every day: Travel advice from a ‘celebrated’ 19th-century writer
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‘Mrs Moore’ and a portrait of the Hyderabad Nizam’s powerful minister
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Long voyages, life in faraway lands: The women of the East India Company
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The tragic tale of General Edroos, who fought a losing battle for the princely state of Hyderabad
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‘Jallianwala Bagh will be immortal in the world’: Publications the British deemed seditious
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The tale of ‘Daku’ Sultana and his unlikely friendship with a British police officer
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How Nazis and the ‘Little Führer of Bombay’ spread their web in war-time India
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How an early version of UK’s national flag helped Bombay merchants grow their business
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In Thailand, the practice of using Talipot hand fans has survived thousands of years
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Indian Railway’s plan to protect women passengers in the 19th century didn’t work out as it expected
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How Punjab came to dominate the British Indian army
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London too played a role when the British discussed India’s constitutional future with Gandhi
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Feeling an affinity with Alexander the Great, Akbar commissioned a special manuscript on his life
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How Alexander the Great became Iskandar Zulkarnain, the legendary ancestor of Malay kings
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As the last Boeing 747 rolls out of the factory, a history of how it became the ‘queen of the skies’
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Fact vs fiction: Pakistan must accept the uncomfortable truths about the 1971 war
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Daggers drawn: How contracts in Western India were guaranteed in blood 300 years ago
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How Persian literature imagined Alexander the Great’s romantic relationships around the world
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In ancient Athens, the ultrarich often paid more tax than they were due – and then boasted about it
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How the world discovered chocolate
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Cries for help: Letters to the British India Office in the 19th century
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Hyderabad Liberation: An Urdu journalist’s murder in 1948 warns India about the perils of autocracy
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19th century letters reveal the mood in Britain when inflation reached the highest levels in history
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In Elizabethan England, a law that made it illegal to let anybody starve led to economic gains
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Two plaques in Srirangapatna claim to mark the spot where Tipu Sultan died. Which one is accurate?
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A succession of bad wheat harvests caused a bread crisis in Britain in 1795
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Images: Where were these miniatures of Sikh rulers painted?
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Real-life Bridgerton stories: 18th-century ‘Lady Whistledowns’ who stoked controversy
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Throughout history, Russian rulers have used the medieval Kyivan Rus state to justify expansionism
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A historian clears up some mistruths and half-truths about the history of Ukraine and Russia
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The curious case of Inspector Derojinsky: A White Russian in the colonial Bombay Police
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In images: The anger in India against the Raj-appointed Simon Commission
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Emmeline da Cunha: Remembering Goa’s first female doctor who had a brief but intense medical career
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Roshani Begum: A dancer from Tipu Sultan’s court who rebelled against the British
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‘We became fearless’: How Godavari Parulekar helped Adivasi women fight their oppressors
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Brexit fish wars: Britain has been fighting over territorial waters for centuries
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An examination guide from 1868 shows what it took to join the Bombay Native Infantry
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When Madras Army soldiers protested about the loss of extra pay
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The oldest surviving Zoroastrian scriptures were found not in Iran or India, but in China
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An unusual annotation in Bengal records from 1777 recalls the famous life of Catherine Grand
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Long before Britney Spears, conservatorships were used to deprive Native Americans of their wealth
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Oriental cults? Factional rivalries? The mystery of the ‘Hindu murders’ in 20th century US
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Attempts to access the Mountbattens’ diaries that cover India’s Partition are being stonewalled
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Pilgrimage to India: When Martin Luther King Jr followed in Gandhi’s footsteps
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Early feminist, pioneering novelist: Recalling colonial-era Marathi Christian reformer Baba Padmanji
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Union vs Centre: Why DMK wants to use the ‘correct’ term for the government of India
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Why the Portuguese administrators in India tried to stop the handover of Bombay to the British
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How the opening of the Suez Canal transformed Mumbai – and its sex trade
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Makhan Singh: The Punjabi radical who fought for freedom in not one but two countries
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Three times when the Mughal military juggernaut ran up against the immutable force of nature
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When the East India Company sent a ship called New Year’s Gift to India
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What today’s politicians could learn from the relationship between Gandhi and his critic VSS Sastri
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When the music of Beethoven mingled with the music of Gandhi’s spinning wheel
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Muhammad Najib Khan, a Sufi soldier and manuscript collector in 18th-century southern India
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Why early feminists in India were accused of being puppets of the British
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‘World was made for women also’: How a US doctor set up India’s first literary society for women
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How a suicide in Calcutta in 1800s sparked a debate on applying English laws in India
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Richard Nixon and British colonialists both viewed Indian women through misogyny-tinted glasses
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On Vidyasagar’s 200th birth anniversary, how do we recall the mass of contradictions that made him?
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On Vidyasagar’s 200th birth anniversary, a look at how he bypassed religion to forge social reform
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William Hunter: The Scottish historian who chronicled the horrors of Bengal and Orissa famines
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Gyan Chaupar to Snakes and Ladders: How a game about a karmic journey became a plaything for kids
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Who was Anthony Firinghee? Remembering the Portuguese-origin singer who is part of Bengali folklore
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How the translation of a Bengali play led to a British priest being convicted for libel in 1861
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How a Socialist member of the Tata family got elected to the British Parliament in the 1920s
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For those delegitimising Tippoo Saëb, an important lesson from his emissaries’ trip to 1788 France
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How Tipu Sultan and Haidar Ali inspired America’s founding fathers in their quest for freedom
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My search for ‘Black Peggy’, a Bengal native who was seduced with a false promise of marriage
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The story of how Mount Everest was measured and got its name
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The Indian exodus from Burma during WW II bears eerie similarity to migrant flight during lockdown
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1918 Bombay Fever: How voluntary groups sprang up in the face of state ‘neglect’
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Creating a legend: How Vasudev Balwant Phadke came to be known as a modern-day avatar of Shivaji
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On his second visit to the USA, in 1916, Rabindranath Tagore was an assassination target
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India Superpower 2020: Tracing the brief history of a spectacularly incorrect prediction
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By understanding Hitler’s rise to power, we can avoid repeating history
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From Narendra Modi’s website: ‘When student power rattled the unhealthy status quo!’
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Climate change fuelled the rise and demise of the powerful Neo-Assyrian Empire
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The heartless way in which the British dealt with the widows of Indian soldiers
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When a desperate British government called on Indian Army officers to take up civilian jobs
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400 years ago, England’s first ambassador to India returned home with ‘eye-opening experiences’
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How crystal chandeliers gifted to the Shah of Persia travelled from England to Bombay to Tehran
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Why a Deccan ruler in 16th century commissioned a beautiful garden and then promptly razed it
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The little-remembered philosopher who translated the Mahatma’s ideas of nonviolence for the US
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On the anniversary of Vivekananda’s Chicago speeches, time to remember what he said – and didn’t
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How a Russian musician ended up building Calcutta’s first drama theatre in the 18th century
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The strange tale of how Joe Biden helped Neil Kinnock lay the ground for UK’s New Labour
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Mumbai Coastal Road: Rather than land, city must reclaim its spirit of public-mindedness
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'Jai Shri Ram' might be a new slogan – but the use of Ram as a political symbol is 800 years old
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Did England’s King Alfred the Great send two envoys to Christian shrines in India in 9th century?
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In photos: A potted history of the pencil
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The story of a lost princely state founded by a veteran of Ahmad Shah Abdali’s invasion of India
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Not only Kashmir: Till 1950, every Indian province had a prime minister
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Mayalee: The story of an Indian dancing girl who stood up to the British Raj
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Gujarat’s medieval cities were once the biggest in the world – as a viral video reminds us
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Maria Sibylla Merian: The 17th-century entomologist who proved that caterpillars turn to butterflies
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Frog eyes, finger nails and eggs: A guide to making love potions from old Hebrew manuscripts
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Beyond Gandhi and King: A project traces the solidarity between Indians and African Americans
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What is common to Morarji Desai, Charan Singh, VP Singh, Chandra Shekhar, Deve Gowda, Inder Gujral?