The political map of India before Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, from the fall of Vijayanagara to the Deccan sultanates.
Episode 1 of Itiha's Shivaji series: the young Shivaji, 1624 to 1648, and his first defiance of the Adil Shahis.
B.B. Lal's 1975 excavations at Ayodhya, the evidence his team found, and how historians responded.
Episode 2 of Itiha's Shivaji series: the arrest of Shahaji Maharaj and the politics of the medieval Deccan.
The Blood Telegram of 1971, the genocide in East Pakistan, and why Nixon backed Pakistan's military ruler.
How Lenin's promise of freedom to the Muslims of the Russian Empire turned into decades of repression.
The Cagots of France and Spain, Europe's own untouchables, and why their history is so rarely told.
Why Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj went to war with Portuguese Goa in 1683, and how close he came to taking it.
India's strikes of 7 May 2025 on terror targets in Pakistan, from Bahawalpur to Muridke, and what followed.
How the Criminal Tribes Act branded whole communities criminal, and the Salvation Army settlements that held them.
How the Communist Party of India opposed Quit India and attacked Subhas Chandra Bose during the Second World War.
Why hoards of Roman gold coins are found in South India, and how the monsoon trade drained Rome's treasury.
Julian the Apostate, the last pagan emperor of Rome, and his attempt to restore the old gods.
Five thousand years of Indian men's clothing, from the dhoti and uttariya to the jama and Western trousers.
How two Brahmin brothers ran the Golconda Sultanate, allied with Shivaji Maharaj, and were assassinated in 1686.
India's village schools before British rule, what British surveys recorded about them, and how they were lost.
The Goa Inquisition ran from 1560 to 1812. How it worked, and how Hindu culture in Goa survived it.
How Hindu temples came under government control, from the Madras Regulation of 1817 to today's HR&CE Acts.
How the 1971 crackdown in East Pakistan drove 10 million refugees into India, and who they were.
How the indenture system replaced slavery in the British Empire, and sent Indian girmitiyas to sugar colonies from Mauritius to Fiji.
Inside the Mughal harem, where more than 5,000 women lived under Akbar: its hierarchy, its politics, and the women who ruled from behind the veil.
James Mill's History of British India (1817) shaped how the world saw India. He never went there.
Operation Tupac: how Pakistan turned its 1971 defeat into a 40-year strategy of proxies, money and narrative.
Part 1 of The Rise of Netaji: Subhas Chandra Bose's rise, his break with Gandhi at Tripuri in 1939, and the road to his escape.
How Subhas Chandra Bose escaped British house arrest in 1941 and rebuilt the Indian National Army into a force of 50,000.
The real history behind The Revolutionaries: how the Ghadar Party, founded by Punjabi migrants in North America, planned a mutiny across India in February 1915.
Subhas Chandra Bose was declared dead at Taihoku in 1945, yet no government ever filed a death record. What the evidence shows.
The Great Hedge of India: a 4,000 km wall of thorns built to collect the British salt tax, and the Congress founder who ran it.
Halley Kalyan on varna, jati and kula, how the British census froze caste, and the debate over reservations. The first episode of the ITIHA Podcast.
How the Ramayana travelled from India to Thailand, Java, Cambodia, China and Japan, and why so many versions of the epic exist. An 8-minute Itiha documentary.
How the British Raj ran regulated brothels, called chaklas, for its soldiers, and how the Contagious Diseases Acts forced Indian women into registration and lock hospitals. A 10-minute Itiha documentary.
