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Monisha Ahmed
Rock Art and Petroglyphs of Ladakh
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Ruangmei Lu: An Aural History of Ruangmei Folk Music
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Early Records of Petroglyphs and Rock Art from Twentieth-century Ladakh
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Early Buddhist Rock Art in Ladakh
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Journey of the Taziya: From Making to Burial

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Dr Stuti Mishra
Dastan-e-Lucknow
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Dr Stuti Mishra
Nawabi Legacy of Splendour and Culture
Performing Arts Histories Built Spaces
Nishant Upadhyay
Parikhana of Akhtarpiya
Performing Arts Histories Built Spaces
Dr Stuti Mishra
An Architectural Legacy of Cultural Fusion
Histories Built Spaces
Nimra Rizvi
The Many Lives of Lucknow's Houses
Histories Built Spaces
Meenakshi Vashisth
Poetic Echoes of Lucknow
Literature and Languages Histories
Anubhuti Krishna
From Kebabs to Korma and Beyond
Practices and Rituals Histories
Anubhuti Krishna
Lucknow Bazaars: Pulse of the City
Histories Built Spaces
Qais Mujeeb
Hidden Gems Around Lucknow
Histories Built Spaces
Dr Suman Mishra
Lucknow in Celluloid Reverie
Visual and Material Arts Histories Built Spaces
Taha Mughal
Baking with Baraka
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Dr Pushkar Sohoni
The Centre of Empires
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Shardul Deshpande and Austin Coutinho
Looking for Ambar’s Khadki: An Ethiopian’s Odyssey in the Deccan 
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Sanket Sharad Kulkarni
Aurangabad: Nahar-e-Ambari, Panchakki and the Water Management System
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Dr Pushkar Sohoni
Architecture in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar
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Dr Dulari Qureshi
Aurangabad Caves and its Unique Sculptures
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Dr Rafat Qureshi
The Queen's Memorial
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Hrutika Satdive
The City of Gates
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Dr Bina Sengar
Legacy of Educational Institutions in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar
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Saleem Beg
Paradise in Bloom
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Dr Abdul Rashid Lone
The city of Srinagar: A Historical Outline
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K. G. Raghunandanan
Calicut and the Religion Called Football
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Devakumar Thenchery
Performing Arts of the Region
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Nadeem Noushad
The Era of Music Clubs
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Anjana Premchand
Cinema in the City
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Sruthin Lal
Tracing Kozhikode’s Literary Heritage
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Athira S B
An Architectural Overview of Kozhikode
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Ullattil Manmadhan
At the Ocean’s Crossroads
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Tashi Morup
Pre-Tibetan Buddhist Rock Art of Ladakh
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Amiya P. Sen
Vivekananda’s Chicago Speeches: What He Said – and Didn’t
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Tiggy Allen
Why the 1883 Jaipur Exhibition of Industrial Arts was Important for India
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Simran Agarwal
How Bal Gangadhar Tilak’s 1897 trial marked the ‘criminalisation of dissent’
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Chandramolle Modgil
The Rajput Warrior’s Armoury: Influences, Experiments and Adaptations
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Anita Rampal
Scientific Temper and Humanism: Rereading Nehru during the Pandemic
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Harminder K.
The Enlightenment of Guru Nanak, and a Glimpse into His Global Udasis
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Shreya Gupta
How Ghalib Mourned the ‘Loss of Delhi’ During the 1857 Revolt
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Aparna Andhare
Gift-giving and the Art of Diplomacy in the 19th-century Jaipur Court
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Tiggy Allen
Of Camels, WW1 Bombers, Elephant Stables and a Maharaja
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Urmila Pawar and Meenakshi Moon
Women in the Ambedkarite Movement: The Chavdaar Tank Satyagraha at Mahaad
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Abhilasha Ojha
Khemchand Prakash: The Man Who Discovered Lata Mangeshkar, Kishore Kumar
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Bina Das
Bina Das, the Freedom Fighter Who Shot at the Bengal Governor
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Huma Sadaf
Portrayal of Partition in Pakistani Cinema
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Amiya P. Sen
A Look-Back at Gandhi’s Hinduism
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Tejaswini Niranjana
Musical Transgression: They were all deewaane together, all mad about music
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Kadiguang Panmei
Ruangmei Naga Folk Music Instruments: From Drums to Flutes
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Aoun Hasan
Making of the Taziya in Uttar Pradesh
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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल (Afroz Alam Sahil)
चम्पारण और बौद्ध धरोहर: धुंधली पड़ती सांस्कृतिक विरासत
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Anita Rampal
Revisiting India’s Legacy of Education Policy Visions
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S Natesh
When Amrita Devi and 362 Bishnois sacrificed their lives for the Khejri tree
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Abhilasha Ojha
Mubarak Begum: Bollywood Music's Shooting Star
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Simran Agarwal
When Concubines Wielded Power: Gulabrai in Eighteenth Century Marwar
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সোহম দাস (Soham Das)
রাঢ়বঙ্গের ঝুমুর: বিবর্তন, আঞ্চলিক সীমাবদ্ধতা ও নাচনি শিল্পের অবলুপ্তির আঙ্গিকে একটি বিশ্লেষণ
Performing Arts Histories
Manan Kapoor
A Sloppy Surgery: How Cyril Radcliffe Carved the Indian Subcontinent
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Sharmistha Chaudhuri
Kalighat Paintings: How a Rural Performance Art Shaped India’s Cultural Landscape
Visual and Material Arts Histories
Aditi Deo
Hindustani Khayal Music: A Sociocultural History
Performing Arts Histories
Srimati Ghosal
Representation of Women in Cartoons from Colonial Bengal (1872–1947)
Visual and Material Arts Histories
Moby Sara Zachariah
‘Taj of Haryana’, the Tomb of Sheikh Chilli
Histories Built Spaces
B.N. Goswamy
Art N Soul: Running Circles Around a Lithograph
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Basav Biradar
In Search of Gold
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Sumangala Damodaran
Indian Rap and Rock Bands Create New-Age Protest Songs
Performing Arts Histories
Sumangala Damodaran
Yeh Gulab Nahin, Inquilab Hai: Continuing Tradition of Protest Music in Contemporary India
Performing Arts Histories
Shruti Chakraborty
Nupi Lan: How Thousands of Manipuri Women Protestors Created History
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Malini Adiga
Memorial Inscriptions with Special Reference to Hero Stones
Visual and Material Arts Literature and Languages Histories
Madhav Nayar
History of Student Protests in Postcolonial India
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Sabarni Pramanik Nayak
Epigraphic Bearings on Defiance to and Deviance from Norms
Visual and Material Arts Literature and Languages Histories
B.N. Goswamy
Art N Soul: Passage to the Past—The Travels of Ibn Battuta
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Sayantani Pal
Image Inscriptions: What Can They Tell Us About Our Cultural History?
Visual and Material Arts Literature and Languages Histories
Shruti Chakraborty
The Indian Constitution: Not Just Any Piece of Paper
Visual and Material Arts Literature and Languages Histories
Dr Matthew D. Milligan
Donative Epigraphy in Ancient South Asia
Visual and Material Arts Literature and Languages Histories
Susmita Basu Majumdar
Literary Inscriptions: An Overview
Visual and Material Arts Literature and Languages Histories
Narayani Gupta
Edwin Lutyens’ Delhi is Unique; India’s Political Class must not Tamper with it
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Narayani Gupta
How Scotsman Patrick Geddes may have Started India’s Obsession with Vastu
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Narayani Gupta
Lucknow isn’t Just Chikan and Kebabs; Sharar’s Essays Reveal its Spirit
Literature and Languages Histories People Built Spaces
Mrinalini Sil
The Jain Temple Library of Azimganj: Jainism is Incomplete without Its Jnan Bhandars
Histories Built Spaces
B.N. Goswamy
Art N Soul: Mystic Syllables and Subtle Speculations in Jainism
Visual and Material Arts Histories Built Spaces
Manan Kapoor
How the 1806 Vellore Mutiny Set the Stage for the 1857 Sepoy Mutiny
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Ardra NG
Periyar E.V. Ramasamy: Mapping His Political and Social Legacy
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Paromita Shastri
The Resilience of Qutub Minar
Histories Built Spaces
B.N. Goswamy
Art N Soul: The Untold Story of the Sarabhais
Visual and Material Arts Histories People
Suprita Das
Golden Grit: Indian Hockey’s Pritam Rani Siwach’s is a Story Less Told
Histories People
Prof. Lokesh Chandra
Guru Padmasambhava; His Provenance
Histories People
B.N. Goswamy
Art N Soul: How the Louisa Parlby Album Depicts 18th Century India
Visual and Material Arts Histories
B.N. Goswamy
Art N Soul: Different Snakes, Different Ladders
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B.N. Goswamy
Art N Soul: Jodhpur’s Polish Designer
Visual and Material Arts Histories People
B.N. Goswamy
Art N Soul: A Prince’s Tour of India
Visual and Material Arts Histories People
Dr Sutapa Chaudhuri
How Toru Dutt pioneered Indian writing and poetry in English
Literature and Languages Histories People
Souradeep Roy
Remembering P Lal and Writers Workshop: The Original Publishing House for the New Author
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Nawang Tsering Shakspo
The Impact of Padmasambhava’s Charismatic Teachings on Ladakhi Society and Way of Life
Practices and Rituals Histories People
Thupten Tenzing
The Legacy of Guru Padmasambhava in the Dissemination of Buddhism in Sikkim
Practices and Rituals Histories People
Ashish Singh and Shruti Chakraborty
Do You Know About Chhattisgarh’s Jal Satyagraha?
Histories People
Manan Kapoor
Cham Dances of Buddhism: Of the Skeleton, the Deer and the Black Hat
Performing Arts Histories
Prof. E. Ismail
The Keyis and the Odathil Mosque of Thalassery
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B.N. Goswamy
Art N Soul: Canvas of Separation, Prose of Pain
Histories People
Paromita Shastri
Sanchi Stupa’s Contribution to Indian Architecture
Histories Built Spaces
Manan Kapoor
Chandni Chowk: Jahanara’s Glorious Moonlight Square that Turned to Dust
Histories People Built Spaces
Navina Lamba
Nine Museums for the Patriotic Indian
Histories Built Spaces
B.N. Goswamy
Art N Soul: A French Jeweller in India
Histories People
B.N. Goswamy
Art N Soul: Cameras and Colonial Encounters
Visual and Material Arts Histories
B.N. Goswamy
Art N Soul: Sacred Journeys—from Ka’aba to Amarnath
Practices and Rituals Histories
B.N. Goswamy
Art N Soul: Riches and Gems from the Nizams of Hyderabad
Visual and Material Arts Histories
Anwesha Sengupta
The Refugee Colonies of Kolkata: History, Politics and Memory
Histories Built Spaces
Samayita Banerjee
Lotus Temple and the Number Nine
Histories Built Spaces
Senjuti Mukherjee
Parameswaran and the AVM Cine Lab: Parallel Lives of the Man and the Machines
Visual and Material Arts Histories
V.K. Cherian
Jawaharlal Nehru and the Rise of Indian Cinema
Histories People
B.N. Goswamy
Art N Soul: Victoria, the Raj, and India
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B.N. Goswamy
Art N Soul: Life of Christ in Mughal Paintings
Visual and Material Arts Histories
B.N. Goswamy
Art N Soul: Unusual Retelling of the Epic of Ramayana
Visual and Material Arts Histories
Preeti Bahadur Ramaswami, Mushtak Khan
Elided Histories: Narratives of the Pandvani
Performing Arts Histories
റിസൺ കെ പ്രസാദ് (Rison K Prasad)
ചേന്ദമംഗലം സിനഗോഗും പാലിയം കൊട്ടാരവും: താരതമ്യ പഠനം
Histories Built Spaces
Joanna Heath
Overcoming Dissonance: Choral and Congregational Songs in Mizoram
Performing Arts Practices and Rituals Histories
പള്ളിക്കോണം രാജീവ് (Pallikkonam Rajeev)
കോട്ടയത്തെ ഡച്ച് ബഹുഭാഷാവിദ്യാലയം: ചരിത്രവും പശ്ചാത്തലവും
Histories Institutions
Shruti Chakraborty
Eid Mubarak: Cross-Cultural Influences and the Dwindling Trend of Eid Postcards
Visual and Material Arts Histories
Manan Kapoor
From Locks to Packaging: A Look at India’s Offbeat Museums
Histories Built Spaces
Sindhuri Aparna
Museum on Rail : The Patiala State Monorail Tramway
Histories Built Spaces
Sajid A. Latheef
Idyll and Ideology: An Overview of Soviet Literature for Children in Malayalam
Literature and Languages Histories
Noorunnida M.
Children’s Magazines and Different Childhoods in Kerala
Literature and Languages Histories
V.S. Rama Devi and S.K. Mendiratta
How India Votes: History of Elections During the British Rule
Knowledge Traditions Histories
V.S. Rama Devi and S.K. Mendiratta
How India Votes: History of Elections in Ancient India
Knowledge Traditions Histories
Dr Rachel A Varghese
Megalithic Sites of Thrissur, Kerala: Appreciation through Site Visit
Histories Built Spaces
Amiya P. Sen
Rabindranath Tagore—the Unlikely Conservative on Hindu Marriages
Histories People
Giles Tillotson
The Unlikely Voyage to India that Inspired Over 100 Paintings
Visual and Material Arts Histories People
Manan Kapoor and Shruti Chakraborty
Thrones of India: From Shah Jahan’s Peacock Throne to Tipu Sultan’s Tiger Throne
Histories
Manan Kapoor
Wangala, Tusu, Karma: 8 lesser-known harvest festivals
Practices and Rituals Histories
Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
Babasaheb Ambedkar on Annihilation Through Conversion
Histories People
Ajeya Vajpayee
The Rajivlocana Temple at Rajim
Histories Built Spaces
Prof. Amiya P. Sen
Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and Renascent Bengal
Literature and Languages Histories People
Jaseera CM
A Study of Ceramics as Grave Goods
Histories Built Spaces
B.N. Goswamy
Art N Soul: The Smell of the Earth
Visual and Material Arts Histories People
मुश्ताक खान
राजिम का पुन्नी मेला/ Punni Mela at Rajim
Practices and Rituals Histories
Nanditta Chibber
Bandra: Of Christmas in the Disputed Dowry Port
Histories Built Spaces
Samayita Banerjee
Hawa Mahal, More Than Just a Breezy Affair
Histories Built Spaces
M.D. Muthukumaraswamy
Colours of Holi: Mythology, Rituals and Nationalism
Practices and Rituals Histories
M.D. Muthukumaraswamy
Visualising the City as Desire, Power, Destruction
Knowledge Traditions Histories
Rupha Ramani
Gobar Goho: The Wrestler Who Put India on the World Wrestling Map
Histories People
Manan Kapoor
Bhagirath Palace: Begum Samru’s Forgotten Haveli
Histories People Built Spaces
Prof. Amiya P. Sen
Swami Vivekananda and the ‘Woman Question’
Histories People
Manan Kapoor
Mirza Ghalib in America
Literature and Languages Histories People
Medha Deshmukh Bhaskaran
Shivaji’s Ingenious Stratagem: The Pratapgad Fort
Histories People Built Spaces
M.D. Muthukumaraswamy
How Thai Pusam and Lord Murugan Form the Hallmark of Tamil Identity
Practices and Rituals Histories
Isha Chaturvedi
Humayun’s Tomb, The ‘Dormitory of the Mughals’
Histories Built Spaces
Raziuddin Aquil
Hazrat-i-Dehli: The Making of the Chishti Sufi Centre and the Stronghold of Islam
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मुश्ताक खान
बंजारा समुदाय : बदलाव और निरंतरता / Banjaras of Chhattisgarh : Changing lives
Histories People
Priya Sarukkai Chabria
Translating the Sacred: Andal
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मुश्ताक खान
बस्तर दशहरा और दंतेश्वरी / The Goddess Danteshwari and the Bastar Dussehra
Practices and Rituals Histories
Swarnima Kriti
Bastaria Dussehra: A Coming Together of Deities
Practices and Rituals Histories
Syed Mohammad Qasim
Sufi Shrines of Shahjahanabad
Literature and Languages Histories Built Spaces
Jolly Rohatagi
Crafts and Craftspeople of Shahjahanabad
Visual and Material Arts Histories Built Spaces
Mogan J. Rodrigues
The East Indian Dialect
Literature and Languages Histories People
Sanjay Dhar
Basgo: The Conservation Story
Visual and Material Arts Histories People Built Spaces
M.D. Muthukumaraswamy
Creation Myths: How did the World, and its Many Stories, Begin?
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M.D. Muthukumaraswamy
Mahatma Gandhi’s 'Hind Swaraj': Imagining a Nation
Literature and Languages Histories People
प्रो.आभा रूपेन्द्र पाल
छत्तीसगढ़ में गांधीवादी आन्दोलन और महिलाएँ, Gandhism and women in Chhattisgarh
Histories People
Shruti Chakraborty
India's ‘Monumental’ Currency Notes: Travel the Country on Banknotes
Histories Built Spaces
Jyoti Puri
Section 377: The Decriminalization of Homosexuality in India
Histories
Samayita Banerjee
India’s Ancient Treasures: Lost and Found, but still Inaccessible
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आशीष सिंह
महात्मा गांधी का प्रथम छत्तीसगढ़ प्रवास
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M.D. Muthukumaraswamy
Kamadhenu: The Pleasures of Giving
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आशीष सिंह
महात्मा गांधी का द्वितीय छत्तीसगढ़ प्रवास,
Histories
Rita Rodricks
A Sociological Study of the East Indian Community of Mumbai
Histories People
Rana Safvi
Shahjahanabad, Shahr Ashob Poetry and the Revolt of 1857
Histories Built Spaces
Dr Uzma Azhar
Shahjahanabadi Food
Histories Built Spaces
Rigzin Chodon and Tashi Morup
Lechen Palkhar – Leh Palace
Histories Institutions Built Spaces
मुश्ताक खान
बस्तर के पारंपरिक लोह-शिल्प, Traditional Iron Ware of Bastar
Knowledge Traditions Visual and Material Arts Practices and Rituals Histories
Aprameya Manthena
Poetry as an Anthropological Record in the Kuravanji
Literature and Languages Histories People
Dr Jose Rapheal
A Deeper Look at Prominent Acheulian Sites of Central India
Histories
आशीष सिंह
छत्तीसगढ़, रायपुर के प्रमुख स्वतंत्रता सेनानी
Histories People
आशीष सिंह
छत्तीसगढ़ में जंगल सत्याग्रह
Histories People
आशीष सिंह
छत्तीसगढ़ में जल सत्याग्रह
Histories People
डॉ. अनिल कुमार भतपहरी
छत्तीसगढ़ी सतनामी रहस, The 'Rahas' of the Satnamis in Chhattisgarh
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Aparna Andhare
Jaipur: History and Architecture
Histories Built Spaces
डॉ. अनिेल कुमार भतपहरी
सतनामी पंथी नृत्य
Knowledge Traditions Performing Arts Practices and Rituals Histories
Rupali Gupte
Physical and Social Configurations of the Bombay Chawls
Histories Built Spaces
Matias Echanove and Rahul Srivastava
The Chawl and Circulatory Urbanism
Histories Built Spaces
Dr Jose Rapheal
Prehistoric Excavations and Explorations in Central India
Histories
Mohan Meghani
Rander: Historic Myths, Islamic Essence and Reflections on Urbanism
Visual and Material Arts Histories Built Spaces
Dr Martin Thomas Antony
Saint Thomas Crosses: The Pahlavi-Inscribed Granite Crosses of South India
Visual and Material Arts Histories
Sunil Kumar
Political Elites and Sufis: 13th and 14th Century Delhi Sultanate
Knowledge Traditions Histories
Vidushi Jain
Power, Piety, and Patronage: A Study of Early Western Calukya Architecture
Histories Built Spaces
Dr Ajay S. Sekher
Arattupuzha Velayudha Panicker: Morning Star of the Kerala Renaissance
Histories People
Dr Ajay S. Sekher
Shaping a Modern Kerala: Sahodaran’s Poetry of Fraternity, Liberty and Equality
Histories People
Naishad Jani
Surat Revisited
Histories Built Spaces
Ar. Binita Pandya
City and Plasticity
Histories People Built Spaces
Amrita Chattopadhyay
'Houses of Scents' in Delhi
Visual and Material Arts Histories
Amrita Chattopadhyay
The Urban Smellscape of Delhi
Practices and Rituals Histories Built Spaces
Ruchika Arora
Mughal Hammams
Histories Built Spaces
Manasa Gowda & Ram Raj D
Channapatna Toys and the Legends of Srirangapatna
Histories People
Manasa Gowda & Ram Raj D
Channapatna Toys and Tipu Sultan's Persian Connection
Visual and Material Arts Histories
Manasa Gowda & Ram Raj D
Channapatna Toys: Non-Toxic, Chemical-free and Safe for Children
Visual and Material Arts Histories People
Yusra Hasan
The Bhishtis of Shahjahanabad: Negotiating Oblivion
Histories People
Eeshita Kapadiya
The Dalapathi System—Individual and the Community
Histories Institutions People
Debdutta Sanyal
A Medley of Faiths: Towards a Composite Religious Culture in Early Medieval Rāḍh
Visual and Material Arts Histories
Sweta Dutta
The Living Past in Present-day Radh Bengal
Visual and Material Arts Practices and Rituals Histories
Arighna Gupta
Chandraketugarh: Bastion of the Humbled King
Histories Built Spaces
Samayita Banerjee, (co-author) Ishani Ghorai
Antiquities Theft and Illicit Antiquities Trade in India
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S. Khursheed Qadri and Parshati Dutta
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Raja Muzaffar Bhat and Parshati Dutta
The Lahore–Kashmir Mughal Imperial Road: Traversing a Terrain of Conflict
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Bhakti, Art and Communication in Pre-Modern Assam
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Anirban Bandyopadhyay
Caste, Region and History: Mahisyas and the ‘Anti-Partition’ Mobilisation in 1932
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Perspectives on Caste: The Nineteenth-Century Bengali Literati
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Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan: An Atheist Monk
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The Jamas of Mughal India
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Urna Mukherjee
Terracotta Temples of Bishnupur
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Bishnupur: A Land of Terracotta Temples
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Lucy Peck
The Qutb Complex: An Overview
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Richa Bansal Agarwal
The Qutb Complex and the Arcuate System of Construction in India
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Deeksha Bhardwaj
Traces of the Past: The Terracotta Repertoire From the Harappan Civilisation
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Kalamkari of Gujarat: Mata ni Pachhedi
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Sandeep Joshi
Baroda Patronage: Sayajirao Gaekwad III as Patron of Art
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Swapna Liddle
Women Patrons and the Making of Shahjahanabad
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Sohail Hashmi
The Architectures of Shahjahanabad
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Saaz Aggarwal
Family Structures and Lifestyle Patterns of Sindhworkis
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Tulsi Mohinani
My Ordinary Life: Seventy Years and Five Continents
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Monica Mahtani Bhojwani
Seclusion in Glamorous Locales: The Life of a Sindhworki Wife
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Chhaya Goswami
Sindhi Entrepreneurs and their Pearling Enterprise in the Persian Gulf
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Saaz Aggarwal
Bhai Pratap: Tribute to a Forgotten Hero
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M.L. Bhatia
Khwaja Khizr and River Cult in Medieval Sindh
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A.B. Advani, MA LLB
The Early British Traders in Sindh
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Radha Kapuria
The Harballabh Music Festival: A Historical Overview
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Asit Kumar Bandhyopadhyay
Restoration of the tombs of the South Park Street Cemetery
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Raziuddin Aquil
मध्यकालीन भारत की भक्ति परम्पराओं के चंद अहम पहलु
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Kapila Vatsyayan
Culture and Science
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Dulari Qureshi
Aurangabad Cave Temples: An Overview
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Laura Ongaro
Furniture
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Monisha Ahmed
Textiles
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Rebecca M. Brown
Painting and Sculpture
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Sanil V.
Choreography of Murder: A Perspective on Anand’s Book of Murder
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Dipanjan Mazumder
The Fortress of Daulatabad
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Noorjehan Bilgrami
Ajrak: The Sacred Cloth of Sindh
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Dieter Schlingloff
Narrative Ajanta Paintings
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M.K. Dhavalikar
Ajanta: The Hinayana-Mahayana Transition
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Hilal Ahmed
Afterlife of a ‘monument’: Taj Mahal
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Yousuf Saeed
Select Bibliography: Sufi Literature in South Asia
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Mehreen Chida-Razvi
Mughal Architecture and Gardens
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Mehreen Chida-Razvi
The Mausoleum of Itimad-ud-Daula
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Monika Zin
Prosperity in this World Instead of Nirvāṇa?
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Walter M Spink
Ajanta. Bagh. Dandin
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Ipshita Chanda
Charit as a Genre
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Ajiṇṭhā Caves,Part II
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Jürgen Wasim Frembgen
Icons of Love and Devotion
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Hindustan Motors factory was set up in 1948, and it started production of the Hindustan Ambassador car in the late 50s. It soon became the vehicle of choice for bureaucrats and politicians for travel. In 1962, the Calcutta Taxi Association took initiative to convert the Hindustan Ambassador to the iconic Yellow Taxi.
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King of Kolkata's Roads: The Hindustan Ambassador Taxi
Anuradhapura served as the capital city of the Sri Lanka for over a millennium. In 1982, Anuradhapura was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in recognition of its legacy as one of the great civilisations of Asia.
Ayan Ghosh
Anuradhapura: The 1400-year capital of Sri Lanka
Parsis first arrived in Gujarat between the eighth and tenth centuries. Navsari in Gujarat was one of the earliest Parsi settlements in India, and became a major centre of the Parsi priesthood.
Sarah Jabbari
In memory of Greater Iran: Zoroastrians of Navsari
An archaic relic in the age of modern modes of transportation, hand-pulled rickshaws have phased away from the countries where they originated, like Japan and China, but continue to exist in India. In Kolkata, they are still used as a mode of transport (Courtesy: Soumya Shankar Ghosal)
Soumya Shankar Ghosal
Hundred years of sweat, toil and public service : Handpulled rickshaws of Kolkata

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Devar, Part II
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Devar, Part I
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Vasudeva, Part II
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Vasudeva, Part I
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