How old is Indian civilization, and can it even be described as a single civilization at all? This episode traces the deep history of South Asia - from the Indus Valley Civilization and ancient ...

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This spirit of reasoned discourse would continue to shape Hindu thought for centuries. The Bhakti movement, which swept across South India from the seventh to tenth centuries and later spread to the ...

The pen might be mightier than a sword but, as Ramesh Chandra Majumdar, one of India’s leading historians of the 20th century, put it in 1970, the spade of the archeologist can be mightier than the ...

This iron dagger's well-preserved wooden handle may help researchers date artifacts found in Konthagai. Tamil Nadu Department of Archaeology Archaeologists working in the village of Konthagai in ...

When I joined the Oriental Institute at Warsaw University as a student 20 years ago, my specialization was “Indology,” but the institution I was studying at was called the Chair of South Asian Studies ...

OUR present Western outlook on history is an extraordinarily contradictory one. While our historical horizon has been expanding vastly in both the space dimension and the time dimension, our ...