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Twilight of the Peshwas: G.S. Sardesai and the Unravelling of the Maratha State
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Part 2: From the high-water mark at Delhi to the fatal Treaty of Bassein, Sardesai’s Main Currents of Maratha History analyses how internal flaws doomed the empire built by the...
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Beyond Myth and Hagiography: G.S. Sardesai and the Making of the Maratha State
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Part 1: A century after his landmark Patna lectures, Main Currents of Maratha History remains a classic primer for understanding the anatomy of Maratha power.
It seems Chhatrapati Shivaji and...
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The Huns Who Came in from the Cinematic Cold
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Peter o' Toole in 'The Night of the Generals' (1967), which remains vastly underrated despite its trenchant probing of the Nazi psyche.
This week marks yet another anniversary of the...
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Kaliningrad and the Ghosts of Prussia
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From Teutonic fortresses to modern missile garrisons, the contested geography of the Baltic has made Königsberg, now Kaliningrad, a recurring European flashpoint.
Russian naval and missile forces make Kaliningrad a...
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The Magnificent Rogues: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly at 60
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Sergio Leone turned the Western inside out with The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, transforming America’s frontier myth with irony, violence and Ennio Morricone’s unforgettable music.
Eli Wallach as...
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The Israel Lobby and Its Discontents
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A new book revisits the contentious case that Israel’s friends wield too much influence in Washington. Yet the roots of America’s attachment to Israel run deeper.
Harry Truman's recognition of...
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From Sleeper Agents to Scrolling Minds, the New Manchurian Candidates
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Laurence Harvey and Frank Sinatra in John Frankenheimer’s sinister ‘The Manchurian Candidate’ (1962)
Meta’s recent apology to the Indian government for briefly restricting a video posted by Prime Minister Narendra...
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Nolan’s Odyssey, or Homer Meets Hollywood’s Identity Politics
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The 1968 miniseries L’Odissea remains the definitive adaptation of Homer's epic
It is profoundly dispiriting to watch timeless epics or famous fictional characters, let alone actual historical ones, rendered hollow...
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The Road to Europe’s Apocalypse
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Vladimir Dedijer’s long-neglected The Road to Sarajevo remains one of the finest guides to the assassination that changed the course of the twentieth century.
Later this month, on July 28th,...
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Paranoid Empire, Insecure Republic: America at 250
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As the United States marks its semiquincentennial, its finest histories reveal a restless nation unable to escape the foundational neurosis of its own creation.
Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851), by...
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The Reckoning of Suez: Britain’s Post-Imperial Dilemma Since 1956
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Part 2: Seven decades after the Suez crisis, Britain’s relentless prime ministerial churn reflects a nation still searching for a durable post-imperial settlement.
Anthony Eden with Gamal Abdel Nasser
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The Burden of Victory: The Long Shadow of 1945
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Part 1: Why do British Prime Ministers seem to fall with such relentless regularity? In a two-part series, we examine the deeper historical forces that have made modern Britain increasingly...
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