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Monisha Ahmed

Rock Art and Petroglyphs of Ladakh

Visual and Material Arts Histories

Kadiguang Panmei

Ruangmei Lu: An Aural History of Ruangmei Folk Music

Performing Arts Histories People

Aoun Hasan

Taziya: Muharram’s Artistic Giveaway

Visual and Material Arts Histories

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Bhakti: An Inclusive Instinct

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Oral Histories: Bari Nadaswaram player S. Palaniappan on the Tyagarajaswamy Temple, Tiruvarur

Performing Arts Histories

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Rigzin Chodon

Early Records of Petroglyphs and Rock Art from Twentieth-century Ladakh

Phuntsog Dorjay

Early Buddhist Rock Art in Ladakh

Sudipto Das

King of Kolkata's Roads: The Hindustan Ambassador Taxi

Aoun Hasan

Journey of the Taziya: From Making to Burial

Articles

Dr Stuti Mishra

Dastan-e-Lucknow

Histories Built Spaces

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

Practices and Rituals Histories

Dr Pushkar Sohoni

The Centre of Empires

Shardul Deshpande and Austin Coutinho

Looking for Ambar’s Khadki: An Ethiopian’s Odyssey in the Deccan

Sanket Sharad Kulkarni

Aurangabad: Nahar-e-Ambari, Panchakki and the Water Management System

Histories Built Spaces

Dr Pushkar Sohoni

Architecture in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar

Histories Built Spaces

Dr Dulari Qureshi

Aurangabad Caves and its Unique Sculptures

Histories Built Spaces

Dr Rafat Qureshi

The Queen's Memorial

Histories Built Spaces

Hrutika Satdive

The City of Gates

Histories Built Spaces

Dr Bina Sengar

Legacy of Educational Institutions in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar

Histories Institutions

Saleem Beg

Paradise in Bloom

Visual and Material Arts Histories Built Spaces Natural Environment

Dr Abdul Rashid Lone

The city of Srinagar: A Historical Outline

K. G. Raghunandanan

Calicut and the Religion Called Football

Practices and Rituals Histories

Devakumar Thenchery

Performing Arts of the Region

Knowledge Traditions Performing Arts Histories

Nadeem Noushad

The Era of Music Clubs

Performing Arts Histories People

Anjana Premchand

Cinema in the City

Visual and Material Arts Histories People

Sruthin Lal

Tracing Kozhikode’s Literary Heritage

Literature and Languages Histories People

Athira S B

An Architectural Overview of Kozhikode

Histories Built Spaces

Ullattil Manmadhan

At the Ocean’s Crossroads

Tashi Morup

Pre-Tibetan Buddhist Rock Art of Ladakh

Visual and Material Arts Histories

Amiya P. Sen

Vivekananda’s Chicago Speeches: What He Said – and Didn’t

Histories People

Tiggy Allen

Why the 1883 Jaipur Exhibition of Industrial Arts was Important for India

Visual and Material Arts Histories

Simran Agarwal

How Bal Gangadhar Tilak’s 1897 trial marked the ‘criminalisation of dissent’

Histories People

Chandramolle Modgil

The Rajput Warrior’s Armoury: Influences, Experiments and Adaptations

Visual and Material Arts Histories

Anita Rampal

Scientific Temper and Humanism: Rereading Nehru during the Pandemic

Literature and Languages Histories People

Harminder K.

The Enlightenment of Guru Nanak, and a Glimpse into His Global Udasis

Knowledge Traditions Histories People

Shreya Gupta

How Ghalib Mourned the ‘Loss of Delhi’ During the 1857 Revolt

Literature and Languages Histories People

Aparna Andhare

Gift-giving and the Art of Diplomacy in the 19th-century Jaipur Court

Tiggy Allen

Of Camels, WW1 Bombers, Elephant Stables and a Maharaja

Urmila Pawar and Meenakshi Moon

Women in the Ambedkarite Movement: The Chavdaar Tank Satyagraha at Mahaad

Abhilasha Ojha

Khemchand Prakash: The Man Who Discovered Lata Mangeshkar, Kishore Kumar

Performing Arts Histories People

Bina Das

Bina Das, the Freedom Fighter Who Shot at the Bengal Governor

Histories People

Huma Sadaf

Portrayal of Partition in Pakistani Cinema

Visual and Material Arts Histories

Amiya P. Sen

A Look-Back at Gandhi’s Hinduism

Histories People

Tejaswini Niranjana

Musical Transgression: They were all deewaane together, all mad about music

Performing Arts Histories

Kadiguang Panmei

Ruangmei Naga Folk Music Instruments: From Drums to Flutes

Performing Arts Histories People

Aoun Hasan

Making of the Taziya in Uttar Pradesh

Visual and Material Arts Histories

अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल (Afroz Alam Sahil)

चम्पारण और बौद्ध धरोहर: धुंधली पड़ती सांस्कृतिक विरासत

Histories Built Spaces

Anita Rampal

Revisiting India’s Legacy of Education Policy Visions

Literature and Languages Histories Institutions

S Natesh

When Amrita Devi and 362 Bishnois sacrificed their lives for the Khejri tree

Histories People Natural Environment

Abhilasha Ojha

Mubarak Begum: Bollywood Music's Shooting Star

Performing Arts Histories People

Simran Agarwal

When Concubines Wielded Power: Gulabrai in Eighteenth Century Marwar

Histories People

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

Histories People

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

Visual and Material Arts Histories

Basav Biradar

In Search of Gold

Histories People Built Spaces

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

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

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

Histories People

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

Histories People Built Spaces

Narayani Gupta

How Scotsman Patrick Geddes may have Started India’s Obsession with Vastu

Literature and Languages Histories People Built Spaces

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

Ardra NG

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy: Mapping His Political and Social Legacy

Histories People

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

Knowledge Traditions Histories

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

Histories People

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

Histories Institutions

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

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

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

मुश्ताक खान

बंजारा समुदाय : बदलाव और निरंतरता / Banjaras of Chhattisgarh : Changing lives

Histories People

Priya Sarukkai Chabria

Translating the Sacred: Andal

Knowledge Traditions Literature and Languages Histories

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?

Knowledge Traditions Literature and Languages Practices and Rituals Histories

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

Samayita Banerjee

India’s Ancient Treasures: Lost and Found, but still Inaccessible

Visual and Material Arts Histories

आशीष सिंह

महात्मा गांधी का प्रथम छत्तीसगढ़ प्रवास

M.D. Muthukumaraswamy

Kamadhenu: The Pleasures of Giving

Knowledge Traditions Visual and Material Arts Literature and Languages Histories

आशीष सिंह

महात्मा गांधी का द्वितीय छत्तीसगढ़ प्रवास,

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

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

Knowledge Traditions Performing Arts Practices and Rituals Histories

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

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

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

S. Khursheed Qadri and Parshati Dutta

Conserving the Mughal Imperial Road: A Case Study of Chingus Sarai

Histories Built Spaces

Raja Muzaffar Bhat and Parshati Dutta

The Lahore–Kashmir Mughal Imperial Road: Traversing a Terrain of Conflict

Histories People

Sharmishtha Agarwal

Sidi Sayyid's Jali, Ahmedabad

Histories Built Spaces

Radha Das

Bhakti, Art and Communication in Pre-Modern Assam

Visual and Material Arts Histories

Aishwarya Javalgekar and Sashank Kini

Use of Puppetry in Children’s Programming at Doordarshan

Visual and Material Arts Histories

Sashank Kini

Magic Lamp – Doordarshan’s Star Programme for Children in the 70s

Visual and Material Arts Histories

Anirban Bandyopadhyay

Caste, Region and History: Mahisyas and the ‘Anti-Partition’ Mobilisation in 1932

Literature and Languages Histories

Neha Chatterjee

Perspectives on Caste: The Nineteenth-Century Bengali Literati

Literature and Languages Histories

Vishvesh Kandolkar

The Basilica of Bom Jesus: A Symbol of Goan Identity

Histories Built Spaces

Pranshu Prakash

Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan: An Atheist Monk

Literature and Languages Histories

Yashaswini Chandra

The Religious Iconography and Stylistic Analysis of the Alchi Group of Monuments

Visual and Material Arts Histories Built Spaces

Toolika Gupta

The Jamas of Mughal India

Visual and Material Arts Histories

Urna Mukherjee

Terracotta Temples of Bishnupur

Histories Built Spaces

Ayeeta Biswas Paul

Bishnupur: A Land of Terracotta Temples

Histories Built Spaces

Lucy Peck

The Qutb Complex: An Overview

Histories Built Spaces

Richa Bansal Agarwal

The Qutb Complex and the Arcuate System of Construction in India

Histories Built Spaces

Deeksha Bhardwaj

Traces of the Past: The Terracotta Repertoire From the Harappan Civilisation

Sandeep Joshi

Kalamkari of Gujarat: Mata ni Pachhedi

Knowledge Traditions Visual and Material Arts Practices and Rituals Histories People

रज़ीउद्दीन अक़ील

भारतीय भाषाओं में इतिहास-लेखन की परंपराएं और चुनौतियाँ (हिंदी के विशेष संदर्भ में)

Literature and Languages Histories

Sandeep Joshi

Baroda Patronage: Sayajirao Gaekwad III as Patron of Art

Visual and Material Arts Literature and Languages Histories Institutions People

Swapna Liddle

Women Patrons and the Making of Shahjahanabad

Histories Built Spaces

Sohail Hashmi

The Architectures of Shahjahanabad

Histories Built Spaces

Saaz Aggarwal

Family Structures and Lifestyle Patterns of Sindhworkis

Histories People

Tulsi Mohinani

My Ordinary Life: Seventy Years and Five Continents

Histories People

Monica Mahtani Bhojwani

Seclusion in Glamorous Locales: The Life of a Sindhworki Wife

Histories People

Chhaya Goswami

Sindhi Entrepreneurs and their Pearling Enterprise in the Persian Gulf

Histories People

Saaz Aggarwal

Bhai Pratap: Tribute to a Forgotten Hero

Histories People

M.L. Bhatia

Khwaja Khizr and River Cult in Medieval Sindh

Histories People

A.B. Advani, MA LLB

The Early British Traders in Sindh

Histories People

Radha Kapuria

The Harballabh Music Festival: A Historical Overview

Performing Arts Histories

Asit Kumar Bandhyopadhyay

Restoration of the tombs of the South Park Street Cemetery

Histories Built Spaces

Raziuddin Aquil

मध्यकालीन भारत की भक्ति परम्पराओं के चंद अहम पहलु

Knowledge Traditions Histories

Kapila Vatsyayan

Culture and Science

Knowledge Traditions Visual and Material Arts Literature and Languages Practices and Rituals Histories

Dulari Qureshi

Aurangabad Cave Temples: An Overview

Histories Built Spaces

Laura Ongaro

Visual and Material Arts Histories Institutions People Built Spaces

Monisha Ahmed

Visual and Material Arts Histories People

Rebecca M. Brown

Painting and Sculpture

Histories Institutions Built Spaces Natural Environment

Sanil V.

Choreography of Murder: A Perspective on Anand’s Book of Murder

Literature and Languages Histories

Dipanjan Mazumder

The Fortress of Daulatabad

Histories Built Spaces

Noorjehan Bilgrami

Ajrak: The Sacred Cloth of Sindh

Knowledge Traditions Visual and Material Arts Histories People

Dieter Schlingloff

Narrative Ajanta Paintings

Histories Built Spaces

M.K. Dhavalikar

Ajanta: The Hinayana-Mahayana Transition

Histories Built Spaces

Hilal Ahmed

Afterlife of a ‘monument’: Taj Mahal

Histories Built Spaces

Yousuf Saeed

Select Bibliography: Sufi Literature in South Asia

Knowledge Traditions Practices and Rituals Histories Institutions People

Select Internet Links

Knowledge Traditions Histories

Mehreen Chida-Razvi

Mughal Architecture and Gardens

Histories Built Spaces

Mehreen Chida-Razvi

The Mausoleum of Itimad-ud-Daula

Histories Built Spaces

Monika Zin

Prosperity in this World Instead of Nirvāṇa?

Visual and Material Arts Histories

Walter M Spink

Ajanta. Bagh. Dandin

Histories Built Spaces

Ipshita Chanda

Charit as a Genre

Literature and Languages Histories

Rajesh Kumar Singh

Ajiṇṭhā Caves,Part II

Histories Built Spaces

Jürgen Wasim Frembgen

Icons of Love and Devotion

Sahapedia Frames

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.

Sudipto Das

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

Library Artifacts

Chaumasa

पंडवानी और कीचक वध प्रसंग

निरंजन महावर

निरंजन महावर

नवल शुक्ल

Vasudeva, Part II

नवल शुक्ल

Vasudeva, Part I

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