The Historylogy Podcast

' Rukhmabai: The Life and Times of a Child Bride Turned Rebel-Doctor ' is the extraordinary story of a child bride who took on the patriarchy and emerged one of India’s pioneering women doctors. An outcome of research spanning decades, Sudhir Chandra’s intelligent, empathetic biography shines brilliant new light on this extraordinary but little-known life of a rebel-doctor who dared to challenge t...

New Cold Wars ― the latest from Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author of The Perfect Weapon David E. Sanger ― tells the riveting story of America at a crossroads. At the turn of the millennium, the United States was confident that a democratic Russia and a newly wealthy China could gradually be pulled into the Western-led order. That proved a fantasy. By the time Washington emer...

Common Sense is a 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. Writing in clear and persuasive prose, Paine marshaled moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for egalitarian government. It was published anonymously on 10 January, 1776, at the beginning of the American R...

' The Bose Deception: Declassified ', in this fascinating investigative work, Anuj Dhar and Chandrachur Ghose have rummaged through more than two thousand files declassified in India, and in the UK, USA and Taiwan to disentangle the complex web of a deception plan that has kept the whole country on tenterhooks for decades. They unravel the plot layer by layer to tell a story that is bound to shock...

Equal parts fascinating and hilarious, The Greatest Nobodies of History is a surreal love letter to life’s forgotten heroes, featuring hitherto undocumented accounts from Ancient Greece to the front lines of the Great Emu War. All that follows really happened, and some of it could even be true … Order links of the book 'The Greatest Nobodies of History: Minor Characters from Major Moments' below:...

Fifteen Brave Men and Women of Bharat who Never Succumbed to the Challenges of Invaders But were Lost and Forgotten in the Annals of History These are the stories of those Bravehearts who Fought to Protect their Rights, Faith and Freedom Pacy and unputdownable, Bravehearts of Bharat chronicles the stories of courage, determination and victory, which largely remained untold and therefore unknown fo...

The first in a new in-depth nonfiction series examining the devastating terrorist attacks that changed the course of history from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jack Carr and Pulitzer Prize finalist James M. Scott , beginning with the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut. Based on comprehensive interviews with survivors, extensive military records, as well as personal letters, diaries, and...

' Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI ' looks through the long lens of human history to consider how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world. Taking us from the Stone Age, through the canonization of the Bible, early modern witch-hunts, Stalinism, Nazism, and the resurgence of populism today, Yuval Noah Harari asks us to consider the complex relatio...

Meenakshi Jain’s " Flight of Deities and Rebirth of Temples " is a compelling exploration of the historical narratives surrounding temples in India, particularly focusing on their transformations and the cultural implications of their journeys through time. Jain, an accomplished historian, combines meticulous research with vivid storytelling to illuminate the complex relationship between faith, po...

Filled with profound revelations for reading and understanding the texts themselves, God’s Ghostwriters written by Candida Moss is a groundbreaking and rigorously researched book about how enslaved people shaped the Bible, and with it all of Christianity. It’s also an intimate portrait of lives not often considered by history, and a reckoning with the motives and methods of the early Christians as...

Master storyteller Erik Larson offers a gripping account of the chaotic months between Lincoln’s election and the Confederacy’s shelling of Sumter—a period marked by tragic errors and miscommunications, enflamed egos and craven ambitions, personal tragedies and betrayals. Drawing on diaries, secret communiques, slave ledgers, and plantation records, Larson gives us a political horror story that ca...

The 1619 Project charts a new American origin story, beginning not on 4th July 1776 with the American War of Independence, but in August 1619, when a ship arrived in Virginia bearing a cargo of up to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Orchestrated by the editors of the New York Times Magazine  and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones , The 1629 Project weaves together essays, poe...

In the early years of the first millennium there were many other saviours, many sons of gods who healed the sick and cured the lame. Among them were Asclepius, the son of Apollo, who made the blind see; gentle, long-haired Apollonius, who raised the dead and Zalmoxis, who promised his followers eternal life. But as Christianity spread across the Mediterranean, these other saviours were pronounced...

A bold new history of the rise of Christianity, showing how its radical followers ravaged vast swatches of classical culture, plunging the world into an era of dogma and intellectual darkness. Taking readers to the great cities of the ancient world and with a remarkable cast of scholars, zealots, martyrs and demons, The Darkening Age is a wrenching and utterly gripping account of centuries of obli...

Nuclear war begins with a blip on a radar screen. This is a minute-by-minute account of what comes next. It has to be read to be believed. Nuclear War written by Annie Jacobsen is at once a compulsive non-fiction thriller and a powerful argument that we must rid ourselves of these world-ending weapons for ever. Order links of the book ' Nuclear War: A Scenario ' below: Amazon India: Hardcover Kind...

' Sati: Evangelicals, Baptist Missionaries, and the Changing Colonial Discourse ' is not a work on Sati per se. It does not address, in any depth, issues of the possible origins of the rite; its voluntary or mandatory nature; the role, if any, of priests or family members; or any other aspect associated with the actual practice of widow immolation. Its primary focus is the colonial debate on sati,...

In this fascinating book, Zeinab Badawi guides us through Africa’s spectacular history – from the very origins of our species, through ancient civilisations and medieval empires with remarkable queens and kings, to the miseries of conquest and the elation of independence. Visiting more than thirty African countries to interview countless historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and local storyt...

Vaibhav Purandare encapsulates Tilak's saga in this definitive biography. He traces Tilak's journey from his early days in Konkan to his influential role across India, highlighting his battles against the British, imprisonments, and commitment to Swaraj. Rediscover an icon of Indian history whose ideas and actions continue to resonate today. Bal Gangadhar Tilak 's story is not just a tale of resis...

Globalization has often been understood as an impersonal and abstract phenomenon. Whether in everyday culture or matters of policy, this force has been experienced as something at once general and monolithic. From Silk to Silicon  written by Jeffrey E. Garten is the first book to look at a history of globalization as told through the lens of ten extraordinary individuals. It tells who these men an...

Lauded as one of the one hundred and eight great centres of Vaishnava worship in Bharatha Varsham, Sree Padmanabha Swamy Temple is a treasure-house of art and architecture as well. Despite the changing phases of its evolution, it has guarded and cherished its legacy of spiritualism including continuity of traditional rites and rituals without sacrificing them in the name of progress. This volume i...

Early officials of the East India Company were surprised to discover that indigenous institutions of judicial redress had survived in a surprisingly good state during the centuries of “Tartar” rule. They noted that those institutions had largely remained beyond the purview of the medieval state, and had well served the needs of the populace. Subsequently, Company-men observed the functioning of in...

A dazzlingly ambitious history of the ancient world that places women at the center—from Cleopatra to Boudica, Sappho to Fulvia, and countless other artists, writers, leaders, and creators of history. In The Missing Thread , Daisy Dunn shows us once again why we all should learn about ancient civilisations: because they provide great stories that are powerful and always fresh and relevant. Order l...

Kashi: The Valiant History of a Sacred Geography tells the story of the most sacred of all Hindu holy cities through the prism of sacred geography as is extensively documented in the Sthala Purana. The book features a summary of the Kashi Khanda from the Skanda Purana, an ancient text on the divine origin and leela surrounding the kshetra of Kashi. The history of this kshetra is enriched by the ac...

The West, the story goes, was built on the ideas and values of Ancient Greece and Rome, which disappeared from Europe during the Dark Ages and were then rediscovered by the Renaissance. But what if that isn't true? In a bold and magisterial work of immense scope, Josephine Quinn argues that the real story of the West is much bigger than this established paradigm leads us to believe. So much of our...

Have you ever wondered what was the human cost behind the Taj Mahal ? Came across this interesting piece of info on Page XXVIII in the ‘Introduction’ section of the book ‘ Babur: The Chessboard King ’ written by Aabhas Maldahiyar which I had reviewed on the 12th of April, 2024. Related links: Babur: The Chessboard King written by Aabhas Maldahiyar - Book Review Order links of the book ' Babur: The...