2500 BC - Present | |
2500 BC - Present | |
Tribal History: Looking for the Origins of the Kodavas |
2200 BC to 600 AD | |
2200 BC to 600 AD | |
War, Political Violence and Rebellion in Ancient India |
400 BC to 1001 AD | |
400 BC to 1001 AD | |
The Dissent of the ‘Nastika’ in Early India |
600CE-1200CE | |
600CE-1200CE | |
The Other Side of the Vindhyas: An Alternative History of Power |
c. 700 - 1400 AD | |
c. 700 - 1400 AD | |
A Historian Recommends: Representing the ‘Other’ in Indian History |
c. 800 - 900 CE | |
c. 800 - 900 CE | |
‘Drape me in his scent’: Female Sexuality and Devotion in Andal, the Goddess |
1192 | |
1192 | |
Sufi Silsilahs: The Mystic Orders in India |
1200 - 1850 | |
1200 - 1850 | |
Temples, deities, and the law. |
c. 1500 - 1600 AD | |
c. 1500 - 1600 AD | |
A Historian Recommends: Religion in Mughal India |
1200-2020 | |
1200-2020 | |
Policing Untouchables and Producing Tamasha in Maharashtra |
1530-1858 | |
1530-1858 | |
Rajputs, Mughals and the Handguns of Hindustan |
1575 | |
1575 | |
Abdul Qadir Badauni & Abul Fazl: Two Mughal Intellectuals in King Akbar‘s Court |
1579 | |
1579 | |
Padshah-i Islam |
1550-1800 | |
1550-1800 | |
Who are the Bengal Muslims? : Conversion and Islamisation in Bengal |
c. 1600 CE-1900 CE | |
c. 1600 CE-1900 CE | |
The Birth of a Community: UP’s Ghazi Miyan and Narratives of ‘Conquest’ |
1553 - 1900 | |
1553 - 1900 | |
What Happened to ‘Hindustan’? |
1630-1680 | |
1630-1680 | |
Shivaji: Hindutva Icon or Secular Nationalist? |
1630 -1680 | |
1630 -1680 | |
Shivaji: His Legacy & His Times |
c. 1724 – 1857 A.D. | |
c. 1724 – 1857 A.D. | |
Bahu Begum and the Gendered Struggle for Power |
1818 - Present | |
1818 - Present | |
The Contesting Memories of Bhima-Koregaon |
1831 | |
1831 | |
The Derozians’ India |
1855 | |
1855 | |
Ayodhya 1855 |
1856 | |
1856 | |
“Worshipping the dead is not an auspicious thing” — Ghalib |
1857 | |
1857 | |
A Subaltern speaks: Dalit women’s counter-history of 1857 |
1858 - 1976 | |
1858 - 1976 | |
Lifestyle as Resistance: The Curious Case of the Courtesans of Lucknow |
1883 - 1894 | |
1883 - 1894 | |
The Sea Voyage Question: A Nineteenth century Debate |
1887 | |
1887 | |
The Great Debaters: Tilak Vs. Agarkar |
1893-1946 | |
1893-1946 | |
A Historian Recommends: Gandhi Vs. Caste |
1897 | |
1897 | |
Queen Empress vs. Bal Gangadhar Tilak: An Autopsy |
1913 - 1916 Modern Review | |
1913 - 1916 | |
A Young Ambedkar in New York |
1916 | |
1916 | |
A Rare Account of World War I by an Indian Soldier |
1917 | |
1917 | |
On Nationalism, by Tagore |
1918 - 1919 | |
1918 - 1919 | |
What Happened to the Virus That Caused the World’s Deadliest Pandemic? |
1920 - 1947 | |
1920 - 1947 | |
How One Should Celebrate Diwali, According to Gandhi |
1921 | |
1921 | |
Great Debates: Tagore Vs. Gandhi (1921) |
1921 - 2015 | |
1921 - 2015 | |
A History of Caste Politics and Elections in Bihar |
1915-1921 | |
1915-1921 | |
The Satirical Genius of Gaganendranath Tagore |
1924-1937 | |
1924-1937 | |
What were Gandhi’s Views on Religious Conversion? |
1900-1950 | |
1900-1950 | |
Gazing at the Woman’s Body: Historicising Lust and Lechery in a Patriarchal Society |
1925, 1926 | |
1925, 1926 | |
Great Debates: Tagore vs Gandhi (1925-1926) |
1928 | |
1928 | |
Bhagat Singh’s dilemma: Nehru or Bose? |
1930 Modern Review | |
1930 | |
The Modern Review Special: On the Nature of Reality |
1932 | |
1932 | |
Caste, Gandhi and the Man Beside Gandhi |
1933 - 1991 | |
1933 - 1991 | |
Raghubir Sinh: The Prince Who Would Be Historian |
1935 | |
1935 | |
A Historian Recommends: SA Khan’s Timeless Presidential Address |
1865-1928 | |
1865-1928 | |
Understanding Lajpat Rai’s Hindu Politics and Secularism |
1935 Modern Review | |
1935 | |
The Modern Review Special: The Mind of a Judge |
1936 Modern Review | |
1936 | |
The Modern Review Special: When Netaji Subhas Bose Was Wrongfully Detained for ‘Terrorism’ |
1936 | |
1936 | |
Annihilation of Caste: Part 1 |
1936 Modern Review | |
1936 | |
The Modern Review Special: An Indian MP in the British Parliament |
1936 | |
1936 | |
Annihilation of Caste: Part 2 |
1936 | |
1936 | |
A Reflection of His Age: Munshi Premchand on the True Purpose of Literature |
1936 Modern Review | |
1936 | |
The Modern Review Special: The Defeat of a Dalit Candidate in a 1936 Municipal Election |
1937 Modern Review | |
1937 | |
The Modern Review Special: Rashtrapati |
1938 | |
1938 | |
Great Debates: Nehru Vs. Jinnah (1938) |
1942 Modern Review | |
1942 | |
IHC Uncovers: A Parallel Government In British India (Part 1) |
1942-1945 | |
1942-1945 | |
IHC Uncovers: A Parallel Government in British India (Part 2) |
1946 | |
1946 | |
Our Last War of Independence: The Royal Indian Navy Mutiny of 1946 |
1946 | |
1946 | |
An Artist’s Account of the Tebhaga Movement in Pictures And Prose |
1946 – 1947 | |
1946 – 1947 | |
“The Most Democratic People on Earth” : An Adivasi Voice in the Constituent Assembly |
1946-1947 | |
1946-1947 | |
VP Menon and the Birth of Independent India |
1916 - 1947 | |
1916 - 1947 | |
8 @ 75: 8 Speeches Independent Indians Must Read |
1947-1951 | |
1947-1951 | |
Ambedkar Cartoons: The Joke’s On Us |
1948 | |
1948 | |
“My Father, Do Not Rest” |
1940-1960 | |
1940-1960 | |
Integration Myth: A Silenced History of Hyderabad |
1948 | |
1948 | |
The Assassination of a Mahatma, the Princely States and the ‘Hindu’ Nation |
1949 | |
1949 | |
Ambedkar warns against India becoming a ‘Democracy in Form, Dictatorship in Fact’ |
1950 | |
1950 | |
Illustrations from the constitution |
1951 | |
1951 | |
How the First Amendment to the Indian Constitution Circumscribed Our Freedoms & How it was Passed |
1967 | |
1967 | |
Once Upon A Time In Naxalbari |
1970 | |
1970 | |
R.C. Majumdar on Shortcomings in Indian Historiography |
1973 - 1993 | |
1973 - 1993 | |
Balasaheb Deoras: Kingmaker of the Sangh |
1975 | |
1975 | |
The Emergency Package: Shadow Power |
1975 | |
1975 | |
The Emergency Package: The Prehistory of Turkman Gate – Population Control |
1977 – 2011 | |
1977 – 2011 | |
Power is an Unforgiving Mistress: Lessons from the Decline of the Left in Bengal |
1984 | |
1984 | |
Mrs Gandhi’s Final Folly: Operation Blue Star |
1916-2004 | |
1916-2004 | |
Amjad Ali Khan on M.S. Subbulakshmi: “A Glorious Chapter for Indian Classical Music” |
2008 | |
2008 | |
Whose History Textbook Is It Anyway? |
2006 - 2009 | |
2006 - 2009 | |
Singur-Nandigram-Lalgarh: Movements that Remade Mamata Banerjee |
2020 | |
2020 | |
The Indo-China Conflict: 10 Books We Need To Read |
2021 | |
2021 | |
Singing/Writing Liberation: Dalit Women’s Narratives |
One of the key petitioners in the Ayodhya title dispute was Bhagwan Sri Ram Virajman. This petitioner was no mortal, but God Ram himself. How did Ram find his way from heaven to the Supreme Court of India to plead his case? Read further to find out.
An excerpt from Shailaija Paik's new book 'Vulgarity of Caste' that documents the pivotal role Tamasha (the popular art form) has played in reinforcing and producing caste dynamics in Marathi society.
A rare first-hand account of the iconic Battle of Somme, one of the most important battles of the First World War, through the eyes of an Indian-Parsi soldier who fought in it.
In the colonial period, the threat of the lecherous male gaze was used by the new patriarchy to restrict access to employment and public space for women, maintaining a patriarchal division of labour. Read how this process unfolded in our newest excerpt.
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Was Lala Lajpat Rai's Hindu nationalism congruent with the principles of secularism? Explore our latest excerpt from Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav's fresh off-the-press book - Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai's Ideas of Nation for more.
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Popularly, we think that political cartoons question the powerful but what if this was not the case? What if political cartoons, replicated structures of the socially dominant? Read how in our new excerpt on political cartoons featuring Dr. Ambedkar.
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On Martyrs' day 2024, read the poet Sarojini Naidu's tribute to Gandhi given over All India Radio two days after his assassination.
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