History Buff

Muslim iconoclasm and the Hindu response

Saurav Dutt, author and political analyst, is out with a new work Garden of Bullets. He writes about the importance of revisiting the Jallianwala Bagh massacre on its 100th anniversary

The problem of language in higher education

The slow but steady transformation of the East India Company from a trading entity to a ruling body in India

Tony Joseph wades through genetics, archaeology and linguistics to present a picture of the people who shaped Indian civilisation

Historian-archaeologist Nayanjot Lahiri takes us through India’s antiquity and values at breakneck speed in her new book

One hundred years after the year of reckoning

India’s traditional architecture made amends for its violations of nature

A rare look into the everyday life of the last Mughals