Born in 1792 in a mercantile family in Colootola, Seal lost his father when he was five. He learnt basic English in two local ...
A Prussian photographer who worked in the USA and India, John Edward Sache is best known for his documentation of the Indian ...
Discover India’s most mysterious abandoned places, from haunted forts to forgotten villages. Uncover the legends and secrets hidden within these eerie, captivating locations!
From the expansive Mauryan Empire, which laid the brass tacks for a unified India, to the culturally rich Gupta Empire, maps ...
As it happens, many 19th Century European ethnographers and ... Many Indian scholars have questioned the "out of India" thesis, arguing that these Indo-European language speakers - or Aryans ...
In a time when the idea of a ‘majority’ has so significantly become identified with religious identity, it is worth asking ...
As the translator observes, the songs anthologised in the Therīgāthā may originally have been composed in a variety of ancient India’s vernaculars and later rendered by editors into Pali, the lingua ...
DINDIGUL: A 19th-century copper plate belonging to the Paraiyar community, with inscriptions mentioning offerings to the Lord ...
For several months in 1898, a pair of male lions turned the Tsavo region of Kenya into their own human hunting grounds, killing many construction workers who were building the Kenya-Uganda railway.
A pair of male lions that roamed Kenya more than a century ago gained notoriety as the “man-eaters of Tsavo.” To be sure, the big cats hunted and ate people building a local railway.
On their book that explores how societies worldwide responded to plague pandemics from Constantinople in the sixth century to ...