Akbar’s navratnas were nine extraordinary minds who shaped one of India’s most intellectually vibrant courts. From poets and ...

The stories of history’s greatest empires reveal a recurring pattern: conquest without restraint, expansion without limits and an inevitable fall ...

The ancient Greeks of India ruled a large kingdom in South Asia until the Scythian nomads, called Sakas, fought against them.

Will modern India see the rise of not one but two ideological parties, as happens in other democracies around the world?

Maharaja Duleep Singh became king at five and lost Punjab before he turned eleven. Forced to surrender the Koh-i-Noor, exiled ...

The Kalyani School students recently celebrated Mad About Civilisations and Empires, a grand exhibition showcasing the great ...

Russia shares land borders with more countries than any nation on Earth. Its vast size, history and location across two ...

NEW DELHI – A newly released book, ‘Treasures of the Gupta Empire: A Numismatic History of the Golden Age of India,’ offers a deep dive into the coins minted during the reign of the Gupta dynasty from ...

Meanwhile, in northeastern China, archaeological finds related to ancient Roman trade routes have begun to transform the way ...

India’s history is a cycle of rising empires collapsing dynasties and constant invasion. From the Harappans and Vedic kingdoms to the Mauryas Guptas Delhi Sultanate and Mughals the subcontinent was ...

WITH Empire, historian David Olusuga has produced a fascinating series of three programmes linking the often censorious approach to the history of the British Empire to the immigration debate ...

Pattanaik’s sleight of hand rests on manufacturing two doubts. First that since the author is called “Kautilya", Chanakya ...