The Panchatantra is possibly the second-most circulated book ever (behind the Bible). Shiva and Krishna became popular gods only after the Vedic period, displacing Indra, Varuna and Soma. Along with ...

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, ...

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 ...

Sanyal emphasised that "Indian history is not what we have been taught to believe", and that people are led to feel that the ...

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 ...

Take a look at the top five Indian batsmen with most runs in List A cricket history. Sachin Tendulkar holds the record for ...

(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 ...

Protecting someone who has sought refuge, even by sacrificing own life, has been a civilisational ethos of Indians. Those ...

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, ...

Indian men and women’s roll ball teams lifted World Cup trophies in Dubai after defeating defending champions Kenya in two ...

(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.