Phil Craig’s stunning ‘1945: The Reckoning’ restores Asia’s war to the centre of Empire’s collapse. Subhas Chandra Bose in Germany In the...

By recognising a phantom Palestinian state, Britain and France are not advancing peace but replaying their very misjudgments that set the...

In a lifetime devoted to relentless scholarship, Mehendale sifted legend from fact, giving the Maratha ruler the biography he truly...

The recent Israeli airstrike in Qatar exposes historic tensions between the Jewish state’s political leadership and its intelligence...

Part 3 - Ojha painstakingly sifted inscriptions, challenged Persian court chronicles and pioneered regional history to give Rajasthan a...

79 years ago, a little-known meat trader Gopal Mukherjee stopped India’s prized city from being swallowed by Partition. On August 27,...

Part 2: In an age when our country’s history was written by Europeans, Mitra showed that Indians could interpret their antiquities for...

With scalpel-like precision, Dr. Uday S. Kulkarni revives the drama of one of Indian history’s greatest recoveries. The Marathas’...

India’s Constitution tied freedom of thought to freedom of rule. The test is whether both can endure together. As India turns 79, it is...

In the decades after Independence, India’s past was often narrated through a narrow lens. As a result, many of the country’s finest...

From the blinding flash of August 1945 to the present, the atomic bomb has haunted literature with questions of morality, necessity and...

The fall of Ranthambore in 1301 to Ala-ud-din Khalji signalled the slow eclipse of heroic Hindu resistance in north India. Ranthambore,...

Inconvenient Truths – the NCERT Textbook Row India’s schoolbooks are finally lifting the veil on a past too long buried in euphemism and...

Inconvenient Truths – the NCERT Textbook Row   India’s schoolbooks are finally lifting the veil on a past too long buried in euphemism...

Inconvenient Truths - the NCERT Textbook Row India’s schoolbooks are finally lifting the veil on a past too long buried in euphemism and...

Inconvenient Truths – the NCERT Textbook Row India’s schoolbooks are finally lifting the veil on a past too long buried in euphemism and...

The murder of Hridaynath Ghosh seemed unsolvable until a brown smudge on a calendar and a classification system devised in Kolkata...

Two and a half centuries on, Jane Austen still startles the world with her wit, wisdom and unflinching clarity. Had Jane Austen been born...

After 900 years, the Bayeux Tapestry is coming home to a Britain as divided and politicised as the one it first depicted. It has been...

India’s tryst with authoritarianism during the Emergency remains a lesson in the dangers of dynastic politics and constitutional...