Adrija Roychowdhury leads the research section at Indianexpress.com. She writes long features on history, culture and politics. She uses a unique form of journalism to make academic research available and appealing to a wide audience. She has mastered skills of archival research, conducting interviews with historians and social scientists, oral history interviews and secondary research....Read More
Adrija Roychowdhury leads the research section at Indianexpress.com. She writes long features on history, culture and politics. She uses a unique form of journalism to make academic research available and appealing to a wide audience. She has mastered skills of archival research, conducting interviews with historians and social scientists, oral history interviews and secondary research.
During her free time she loves to read, especially historical fiction.
Mar 09, 2017 19:49 IST
Legend suggests that in the earliest times kingship in India was thought to be based upon human...
Thu, Mar 09, 2017
Mar 08, 2017 11:26 IST
On various instances women have risen in unison not just for gender related issues, but also...
Tue, Mar 08, 2022
Mar 04, 2017 12:27 IST
"Aurangzeb protected more Hindu temples than he destroyed. He employed more Hindus in his imperial...
Fri, Sep 04, 2020
Feb 27, 2017 18:45 IST
The origins of the EIC lay in certain developments in seventeenth century England that acted as a...
Mon, Feb 27, 2017
Feb 24, 2017 12:48 IST
As per records, the trek by land must have been undertaken by at least 400,000 refugees, if not...
Fri, Feb 24, 2017
Feb 20, 2017 20:46 IST
To read the two epics as a work of religion is unwarranted and nothing but politically...
Tue, Feb 21, 2017
Feb 19, 2017 17:29 IST
To the average Indian, Shivaji has over the years come to represent everything that is glorious and...
Sun, Feb 19, 2023
Feb 13, 2017 12:55 IST
The judgment stated that the only way to determine support enjoyed by a particular state government...
Mon, Feb 13, 2017
Feb 09, 2017 17:18 IST
The sinking of the Ghazi in mysterious circumstances has been a contentious issue between India and...
Thu, Feb 09, 2017
Feb 07, 2017 17:02 IST
Dara Shikoh was the brother of Aurangazeb and was killed by the...
Tue, Feb 07, 2017
Feb 06, 2017 18:12 IST
Soon after the riots, the Samajwadi Party’s government was under severe attack for not only poor...
Tue, Feb 07, 2017
Jan 31, 2017 16:55 IST
Personalities like Anarkarli and Jodha Bai are also similar cases of fictional accounts becoming...
Tue, Jan 31, 2017
Jan 30, 2017 14:25 IST
A day after his assassination, Mahatma Gandhi featured across the front page of practically every...
Sun, Jan 30, 2022
Jan 25, 2017 16:44 IST
When the constitution of India was born, it was considered necessary by the makers of the document...
Tue, Jan 24, 2023
Jan 23, 2017 19:39 IST
The legacy left behind by Bose in independent India was a source of constant worry to an American...
Tue, Jan 24, 2023
Jan 19, 2017 18:56 IST
The earliest evidence of Jallikattu or bull taming can be found in ancient Indian cave paintings...
Thu, Jan 19, 2017
Jan 18, 2017 19:04 IST
Food from India did not just form a major part of import, but had over time become an essential...
Wed, Jan 18, 2017
Jan 17, 2017 16:15 IST
MGR used his popularity both as an actor and as a public figure to make the AIADMK a successful...
Tue, Jan 17, 2017
Jan 11, 2017 15:48 IST
Hollingworth passed away on January 10 having lived a daring, adventurous life of 105...
Wed, Jan 11, 2017
Jan 05, 2017 16:18 IST
With a population of 0.26 crore and 60 Assembly seats, the state has seen the Congress government...
Thu, Mar 09, 2017
Jan 05, 2017 15:43 IST
According to majority of the Burmese Buddhists, ‘Rohingyas’ is a fabricated religious...
Thu, Sep 07, 2017
Jan 05, 2017 00:42 IST
In a year that saw several battles between the Left and the Right, history kept getting caught in...
Thu, Jan 05, 2017
Jan 03, 2017 15:07 IST
Akhilesh Yadav was convinced of the necessity for the party to break away from the caste based,...
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Dec 26, 2016 16:50 IST
In 2016, history in India was the victim of ‘nationalism’, the word that in present times is...
Mon, Dec 26, 2016
Dec 23, 2016 16:35 IST
There were several images of Mughal rulers with Biblical characters in the murals above, therefore...
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