Ancient India was one of the most influential civilizations in human history. Its ideas shaped philosophy, science, ...

J K Dadoo writes that ancient India, through trade, religion and knowledge networks, shaped global civilisation as the world’s central intellectual and philosophical power William Dalrymple, a great ...

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India celebrated her 77th Republic Day on Monday, with the parade also marking 150 years of Vande Mataram, the iconic anthem written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay. Roughly translating to “Mother, I ...

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Long before modern borders, Indian coins travelled across Asia and beyond. From Gupta gold to Vijayanagara pagodas, Hindu ...

The reality is complex. Ancient India certainly had democratic and republican states, but so did ancient Greece, Rome, and a host of other places. David Stasavage, dean for the social sciences at New ...

Thomas Babington Macaulay, in 1835, remarked, “A single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India.” This scathing mindset shaped much of Western scholarship on ...

For historians, the implications are immediate. They reveal how ancient traders from the subcontinent interacted with the world, with links to previous discoveries in India and elsewhere.

In the heart of India’s ancient wisdom lies an orchestration of cosmic principles, ethical conundrums and pragmatic strategies that have guided civilization for millennia. The Vedas, Purāṇas and the ...

We hear little about history in Central Missouri before the Spaniards, French and early explorers. But the stories of their exploits cover only a small sliver of time in the long history of humans ...