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Writing history for children in the times of historical revisionism
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The Caravan
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Privilege keeps many from seeing the violence in India: Historian Aparna Vaidik
Abhimanyu Chandra
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An archive traces the feminist history of Nepal
Nepal Picture Library
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What we chose not to remember on the centenary of Jallianwala Bagh
Manik Sharma
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The orators helping Kerala fight against religious revivalism
Leena Gita Reghunath
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The Congress’s ill-thought-out imitation of the BJP on Sabarimala
Abhay Regi
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KT Achaya’s pioneering scholarship on Indian food
Mayukh Sen
History
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The destruction of ancient Buddhist sites
DN Jha
History
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An artwork invokes the uneasy history of caste and religious conversions in Goa
Dale Luis Menezes
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The movement to rebuild an iconic monument in earthquake-hit Nepal
Atul Bhattarai
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How Partition Impacted Monuments in Newly Formed India
Nayanjot Lahiri
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What a critical biography—still unwritten—of Thomas Babington Macaulay would tell us about ourselves
Aseem Shrivastava
History
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“A caricature of ‘Aurangzeb the Bigot’ serves many modern political interests in India”: An interview with the historian Audrey Truschke
Majid Maqbool
History
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“Don’t We Need To Know India’s History?”: Archaeologist Amarnath Ramakrishna Discusses His Transfer From A Key Sangam-Era Site
Saradha V
Film
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A cult filmmaker’s Indian misadventure
Poorna Swami
History
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Histories that challenge the reductionist popular understanding of Islam in India
Nandini Ramachandran
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The vacuity and deceit of “Bharat Mata ki jai”
Hartosh Singh Bal
Caste
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In California, a Debate Over History Curricula Has Brought To Fore Denials of Caste in the Indian American Community
Aria Thaker
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Reanimating portraits of forgotten black Africans
Omar Victor Diop
Education
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The Last of a Kind: A Student’s Reminiscences of the professor Randhir Singh
Sandeep Bhushan
Agriculture
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The Lede
The forgotten Chinese pioneers of Mahabaleshwar
Sameer Khan
History
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Photo Essay
The Czech settlers of the Banat
Iva Zimova
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What next for Nepal?
Roman Gautam
Six Poems
Abhay K.
History
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Celebrating a revolutionary past in Pakistan’s present
Chris Moffat
History
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What new insights do a slew of recent books on Gandhi reveal of his life and thought?
Tridip Suhrud
Politics
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The Lede
Nehru’s former employee offers an amusing, rambling account of his own life
Leena Gita Reghunath
History
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In his most ambitious book yet, Partha Chatterjee discusses how imperialism laid the groundwork for norms and practices of governance that are still with us
Gyan Prakash
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The inscrutable politics of Subramanian Swamy
Samanth Subramaniam
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The Lede
An old occupation brings together generations of a Chinese immigrant family in Chennai
Saranya Chakrapani
