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The true story behind a ‘real’ photograph of Rani Lakshmibai

A seven-year-long forensic search that went from India to England has lessons for the AI age of fabrication.In 2003, a painted portrait of Hindutva ideologue VD Savarkar was installed...

Rigorous historical analysis is needed to comprehend contemporary politics

The Citizenship Amendment Act is inherently discriminatory, and its supporters’ arguments lack historical and cultural depth.

Lockdown at JNU: After Ramayana, another webinar on the “Saraswati Civilisation”

Senior faculty of Centre for Historical Studies (CHS) write to VC, expressing grave concerns and misgivings about this webinar

EXCLUSIVE: Bakshi’s agenda is to re-designate Harappan civilisation as Sarasvati civilisation, make weak claims of a “Hindu holocaust”

The Maj Gen’s Bakshi’s characterisation of the last 600 to 800 years of subcontinent’s history revivescommunalised understanding, based on assertions rather than substance 

Court begins recording statements of Babri demolition accused

The Supreme Court has extended the deadline for completion of hearing in the case up to August 31

When will we learn our lessons from previous pandemics?

Some lessons from three epidemics of Modern India: 1896-97, 1918-20 & 2020

Nehru and the culture of ‘Scientific Temper’

Remembering India's first Prime Minister and a true visionary

Remembering Balbir Singh Sr

Was this Indian hockey idol denied his due allegedly for being a Sikh?

Remembering the uprising

The losing battle fought by Bahadur Shah Zafar's men and the barbarism of 'civilised' colonists  

Mosques turned into Temples, the other side of history

Every now and then a local community “leader with...

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