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.
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🔴 In the pre-liberalised era of the mid-1950s, the government remained the biggest employer of...
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The foundation of the opposition was both religious and political, and rooted as much in the East...
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Unlike most other organised religions of the world, very little in Hinduism is all-encompassing....
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There were several images of Mughal rulers with Biblical characters in the murals above, therefore...
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The temple was destroyed by Pakistani forces during their Operation Searchlight in March 1971, the...
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For the early Portuguese traders the Marakkars were nothing more than criminal elements or pirates...
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From the mid 16th-century, Indians in London were not only building the city, but also shaping the...
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The use of the suffix ‘great’ has become less common in modern history-writing however, as...
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While the idea of a sacred thread did exist and so did the practise of adorning the bride with...
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The historian examines colonial stereotypes of Indian royalty in his new book False Allies: India's...
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Udham Singh, a witness to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, was so horrified by the atrocities of...
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In their new book, author and film maker Nilosree Biswas and photographer Irfan Nabi set to explore...
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The region of Khorasan is of special significance in the political and cultural history of Islam as...
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French has been a South Asian language since the 17th century, when agents of the French East India...
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The narrative of the Somnath Temple’s destruction and resurrection has served political purposes,...
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On Monday, the 46 evacuated Afghan Sikhs carried with them three of the six remaining swaroops of...
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Canadian journalist Terry Milewski, in ‘Blood for blood: Fifty years of the global Khalistan...
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A new research paper published in the peer-reviewed journal of the Springer Nature Group has...
Tue, Aug 31, 2021
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Adrija Roychowdhury writes: The front pages of newspapers across the world the next day reflected...
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Pakistan's approach to integrating the princely states, in contrast to that of India, is cited as...
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To understand the intertwined history and geography of India’s Northeast, it may be helpful to...
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Science, history, and art come together in her work as an...
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