History
Posts whose main purpose is to explain the past.
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Jab We Met: Encounters between Islam and Hinduism in Early-Medieval Punjab
Prompted by a bilingual Ghaznavid dirham in his collection, the author argues that Pakistanis forget the layers of history beneath them and examines the first extended encounters between Islam and…
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the Sanskrit tongue was chilled at 500metres
Notes on a book’s geographic account of Eurasia, including how Indian civilisation was a lowland phenomenon, Sanskrit’s reach, and Pakistan and Iraq as illogically drawn states.
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A stirring reminder of India’s role in the British Empire
A shared fact that India paid £479 million for Britain’s First World War, with the poster amused that an ancient civilisation is billed as a ‘young lion’ beside Australia, Canada…
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