Audrey Truschke’s single-volume work makes a bold attempt to capture thousands of years of cultural ferment on the Indian ...

About a month ago, a video emerged of an Indian teacher telling students to slap a 7-year-old classmate. The boy had gotten his multiplication tables wrong, but his real crime was being an Indian ...

School textbooks have become the latest battleground for Hindu nationalism in India, as education officials have deleted key passages about Muslim rule during the Mughal empire. The textbooks, ...

One of the most shocking terror incidents in the history of India took place on December 13, 2001, when five armed terrorists ...

Aurangzeb, the longest-ruling Mughal emperor, reigned for nearly 49 years, expanding the empire to its greatest size through ...

Australian historian Zubrzycki (Empire of Enchantment) surveys five millennia of Indian history in this concise account. People first began living in the subcontinent 1.5 million years ago, making ...

(These dates have been compressed or approximated to give a perspective of Indian history in brief space.) Stone Age relics indicate numerous prehistoric peoples in India, ancestors of Dravidians, the ...

When coconut farmers in India’s Tamil Nadu state stumbled across a stone covered in strange inscriptions, it’s unlikely they expected it to be a groundbreaking find in Indian Jewish history. However, ...

(RNS) — When coconut farmers in India’s Tamil Nadu state stumbled across a stone covered in strange inscriptions, it’s unlikely they expected it to be a groundbreaking find in Indian Jewish history.