In a 2023 paper, Professor Ingo Strauch argued that graffiti should be considered a genre of Indian epigraphy using a powerful case study—the Ashokan pillar in Prayagraj.
Material and photos of artefacts discovered as part of a programme under Pleach India Foundation were on display at the History Literature Festival in Hyderabad.
Historians Romila Thapar, Kumkum Roy, and Preeti Gulati were part of a session titled ‘Women Writing History: Three Generations’ at the Kerala Literature Festival.
Some habits like voyeurism and male gaze cut across cultures and the passage of time. The men in Hampi would lounge in the balconies to catch a glimpse of women in the Queen’s Bath.
The IIC hosted the inauguration of The Future of the Past: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, an exhibition showcasing the history and cultural records preserved by the institute.
History is in our minds, the perceptions of historians is what we learn. So, each of us can be a historian at our term and rejoice in life while we can.
Repeated changes in cotton import duty have prioritised textile competitiveness when mills face high input costs. But policy can also put pressure on farmgate prices.
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