Essay:
The long journey of the Brahmin Bull
By Akanksha Damini Joshi
#BosIndicusInAmerica #JallikattuLearning
The story starts in 1854. Southern America, Louisiana.
Once upon a time, 2,500,000 acres of tall wild grass, wild flowers.
Within this expanse, a small plantation town called St. Franci...
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Essay:
When Did We First Celebrate Makar Sankranti?
By Raj Vedam
Swarajya - Jan 13, 2017
The widespread celebration of the Makar Sankranti festival and its many regional variations hint great antiquity. In this article, we will take a journey through time, weaving together history, astronomy, c...
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Essay:
Banning Jallikattu Will Decimate India’s Indigenous Cattle Breeds
By Himakiran Y Anugula
The Wire - 10/01/2017
Imagine this scene a few thousand years ago in the Indus Valley region. A group of herders out grazing a few hundred cattle, enjoying the warm sun on their backs with the occasio...
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The Swamimalai Murugan temple and the Tamil Calendar
By Raj Vedam
The Swamimalai Murugan temple near Kumbhakonam has existed since the Sangam Era (~500BCE), and later built ornately by the Cholas around 900 CE. The temple was heavily damaged in 1740 during the cannon exchanges between the Britis...
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The multi-floored George Peabody Library at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, USA was built in the mid-18th century and is still open to the public.
Essay:
Revolutionary heroes
By Blake Smith
aeon.co
If the sultan of Mysore had had a bit more luck, George Washington might be known as the Haider Ali of North America. As the ruler of Mysore, a kingdom in what is now southwestern India, Haider fought a series of wars with Great Britain in the l...
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Essay:
Counterview: Taimur's actions were uniquely horrific in Indian history
A response to a Scroll.in article about Hindutva's distorted reading of medieval Indian history.
by Girish Shahane
Published in Scroll.in, 28 December 2016
The unlikeliest of events set off bitter historical debates in...
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Essay:
How India went from World’s Education Capital to Depths of Illiteracy - Part I
By Sahana Singh
IndiaFacts - 6 December 2016
Just a thousand years ago, India was dotted with universities across its length and breadth where international students flocked to gain credentials in advanced educ...
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Article:
A discovery that changed the antiquity of humankind who lived in Indian subcontinent
By T. S. Subramanian
The Hindu - May 27,2013
One hundred and fifty years ago, on May 30, 1863, young geologist Robert Bruce Foote bent down and picked up a stone tool on the Parade Ground at Pallavaram ...
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Essay:
Are we using the wrong calendar to mark human history?
By Scroll staff
A new calendar aims to incorporate all cultures and histories.
When does the human history begin? The answer lies in the way we count years – before and after a significant event – that is today based on the year Jes...
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Essay:
The East India Company: The original corporate raiders
By William Dalrymple
Guardian - 2015
For a century, the East India Company conquered, subjugated and plundered vast tracts of south Asia. The lessons of its brutal reign have never been more relevant.
The Austrian National Library (Nationalbibliothek) is first and foremost the country’s largest working library, home to millions of books. It is located in the Hofburg Palace in Vienna; since 2005 some of the collections find themselves in the baroque Palais Mollard-Clary. Hofburg Palace is a pal...
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