The book analyses five key battles (from the Battle of Hydaspes to the Battle of Assaye) to understand why India often ...

Whatsapp For centuries, Kashmir’s ancient past remained fragmented. Modern archaeological and numismatic research has ...

IT is not an easy task to write a popular introduction to the history of ancient India. A race, destitute of the historical sense, has left few records of early events save poems and dreary treatises ...

India is a country with ancient wisdom, diverse cultures, and outstanding performances that have influenced human civilisation over millennia. The motherland of the world's religions, India, had a ...

THE principal difficulty in the study of Indian antiquities has always been the absence of a chronological framework. The Indians themselves had no idea of what we mean by history. They possessed a ...

University of Bath provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. It should come as no surprise that the first recorded use of the number zero, recently discovered to be made as early as the 3rd ...

In Haryana, Rakhigarhi is witnessing a remarkable shift. According to the Times of India, the state's Department of Archaeology and Museums has partnered with travel groups to conduct over a hundred ...

On a flying visit to Colombo last week, I gave the inaugural keynote address at an international conference on the cultural footprint of India across South and South-East Asia. In the annals of world ...

While ancient Indian graffiti in Egypt may be in the news right now, historical graffiti are not rare either in India or elsewhere in the world ...