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WATCH: Soulful music from Kutch

Songs from the Rann.Videos: Hitesh Harisinghani/Rediff.com IMAGE: Sufi singer Mooralala Marwada outdoes himself in Mumbai. Photograph: Hitesh Harisinghani/Rediff.com The organisers of the Zee......

Why the British Museum won't return the Harihara

'It is vital that objects such as the Harihara -- and collections from South Asia generally -- remain here,' the British Museum tells Vaihayasi Pande Daniel. PART I: Give us our gods back! PART......

How the British stole the Kohinoor from a child

'I can tell you the case that hurts me the most is the one in which the little boy is forced to sign the Kohinoor over.''You take a mother away from a child, you surround him with grown ups......

'The Kohinoor has wreaked havoc in its trail'

‘After Nader Shah’s death, in the chaos that followed, a court eunuch called Agha Mohammed tortured Nader’s grandson Shah Rukh to find out where the diamond was. ‘Shah Rukh......

'The Kohinoor was not gifted to the British'

'Duleep Singh was not in a position to give it away because he was only a minor of about 3, 4 years old.' 'The Indian claim of the British having taken the Kohinoor from the Sikhs does not stand......

Big bucks? Authors too are getting them

Authors have finally started making news in India, with the size of their book advances and not just their books themselves. Ramachandra Guha had publishers vying to offer him upwards of a crore of......

Globalisation of Golconda

Part I: The local and global in Hyderabad's development Shri Narasimha Rao would have known that Hyderabad, and its predecessor kingdom of Golconda, had their own 'Look East Policy'. I discovered......

Argumentative Amartya

When the Nobel Prize marked its centenary in 2001, the foundation asked a handful of laureates for two mementos each that might be included in an exhibit. "They took away my bicycle, on which I had......

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William Dalrymple's latest book charts the course of The East India Company

Author William Dalrymple’s new release is a result of six years of extensive research on East India Company and their ruthless pursuit of power.... ...

https://www.hindustantimes.com/books/the-anarchists-of-victorian-era/story-knDf2RcsRFiWABN8vEhJIM.html

The Anarchy by William Dalrymple's to release on Sept 10

lrymple, the acclaimed historian and art historian, is the bestselling author of the Wolfson Prize-winning White Mughals, The Last Mughal, which... ...

https://www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/the-anarchy-by-william-dalrymple-s-to-release-on-sept-10/story-e0YsWu0Xjtvat8hOlzvloM.html

William Dalrymple takes a ‘Tharooresque’ jibe

NEW DELHI: Congress politician Shashi Tharoor’s congratulatory tweet to his party over the appointment of Sonia Gandhi as its interim chief was... ...

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/william-dalrymple-takes-a-tharooresque-jibe/articleshow/70635964.cms

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