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What Big History Says About How Royal Women Exercise Power

Power behind the throne. The tomb of Eleanor of Aquitaine alongside Henry II of England in the church at Fontevraud Abbey in Anjou, France. Photo courtesy Martin Cooper/Flickr

‘When the king was absent, it was the queen and not the prime minister or anyone else who was the most important person at court.’

Rare Document Signed By Nehru, Shakespeare’s First Folio Await Proper Care at IIT Roorkee

They are among thousands of historic manuscripts and unseen photographs awaiting proper preservation at IIT Roorkee’s iconic library.

The Empathetic Humanities Have Much to Teach our Adversarial Culture

Recently discovered prisoner writings on the wall of Lyon’s notorious Montluc prison from which résistant and historian Marc Bloch was taken and executed by the Nazis on the night of the 16 June 1944. A noted historian, Bloch wrote: ‘The task of the historian is understanding, not judging.’ Photo by Bony/AP/Rex.

One poorly chosen phrase can sully an entire work.

[Watch] The British Called Themselves Secular and Divided Indian History in Terms of Hindu and Muslim: Historian Sohail Hashmi

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The term “Hindu”, according to Hashmi, was never a form of identification in the pre-British era.

The Autopsy Of Democracy

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan

Time has proved again that dominant interests do not necessarily need force to maintain their control; instead they train the people to identify their interests with the interests of their rulers.