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Although a minority, Indian Shias maintained cultural influence through connections with ruling dynasties, balancing local customs with ties to broader Shia networks in Iraq and Iran. They saw a significant shift in identity following the

Founded in 1960, the Deutsche Schule Bombay was the realisation of a long-cherished dream of the German diaspora in the city.

The author of The Hyderabadis on the Shia roots of the Old City, the slow collapse of the Gulf dream, and whether a composite culture can survive the pressures closing in on it.

Today, India, despite global scrutiny, has maintained a principled partnership with Iran, balancing its energy and strategic interests with Western diplomacy.

US trade with India began immediately after America’s independence from Britain in 1783, when American shipowners could trade directly with the East.

The political debate around Vande Mataram cannot be understood without revisiting Anandamath, the 1882 novel by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay that embedded the song within a larger nationalist narrative set during the 18th-century Sanyasi Rebellion.

From 1888 to 1979, ‘Capital’ reported on trade, production, taxation, infrastructure, labour relations, and politics with balanced authority and clarity.

Aminia’s legacy traces its roots to Dariabad, a small town near Lucknow, says Kabir Azhar, the fourth-generation owner of the iconic Kolkata restaurant.

Born in 1941, Jesse Jackson emerged as a civil rights leader, shaped by the principles of Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi

An expedition meant to challenge the Portuguese in Sri Lanka instead left behind a Protestant church, a Tamil printing press, and a marginal empire in Tranquebar.

Deepta Roy Chakraverti’s ‘Daktarin Jamini Sen’ traces Jamini Sen’s journey from her birth in a Bengal village to her rise as one of British India’s first female doctors.

Founded in 1552 by King Edward VI in the United Kingdom, Shrewsbury School opened its fully boarding international campus in Bhopal last year.

Hated in his lifetime and celebrated in death, the Duke of Buckingham became the convenient villain through whom England learned to criticise power without naming the king.

While Trump described the reduction of tariffs on Indian goods as an act of reciprocity, an idea rooted in early American trade policy, the First Tariff Act of 1789 treated reciprocity as a safeguard against

Vaikom Narayani Janaki served as the chief minister of Tamil Nadu for 23 days in 1988 following the death of her husband, M G Ramachandran (MGR).

Akhilesh Upadhyay’s book, In the Margins of Empires: A History of the Chicken’s Neck, spotlights the borderland people of the eastern Himalayan region who find themselves caught in the crosscurrents of larger geopolitical rivalries.

Shehnab Sahin’s short story collection, ‘Colour My Grave Purple and Other Stories’, seeks to expand Assam’s narrative beyond insurgency and AFSPA.

Historian Jane Ohlmeyer reflects on the long and uneasy connections between Ireland and India under British rule, from shared imperial structures and Irish participation in empire to partition, migration, and the politics of historical memory.

At a time when US President Donald Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ threatens the UN’s future, the League of Nations and its collapse offers some sobering lessons.

Once played across the subcontinent under many names, kabaddi was rapidly standardised in newly independent India. This process enabled its rise as a “national sport” but also eroded much of its vernacular and rural roots

19th-century English Directories and Bengali Directory-Panjikas recorded streets, professions and rituals with a precision modern urban history often neglects

While US President Donald Trump has reiterated his desire to take control of resource-rich Greenland, he is not the first to harbour such intentions, history shows.

Once engineered as a symbol of women’s liberation, the cigarette has travelled a long road from corporate manipulation to cinematic cliché, and now, to acts of rebellion under Iran’s authoritarian rule.

The Monroe Doctrine was meant to keep European empires out of the Americas. But it has, scholars argue, become a flexible tool for justifying US intervention instead. President Donald Trump’s invocation of the doctrine over

Today, when NCERT textbooks assert that Brahmagupta and Bhaskaracharya developed algebra independently and before Arab scholars, they repeat a logic that has haunted Indian scholarship for nearly two centuries. Such claims are framed as historical