Indian perfume history is an unbroken narrative stretching over four millennia, woven into art, ritual, and medicine from the ...

A recent archeological dig in India uncovered stone tools, weapons, and other artifacts made by early humans which resemble tools found in Eastern and Southern Africa. The artifacts may help shed ...

Scholars highlight India’s foundational contributions to mathematics, including zero, sine functions, Pythagoras’ theorem and the fibonacci sequence, documented in ancient manuscripts long before ...

Researchers have been scouring centuries-old Indian poetry and folklore to understand the history of the great expanses of grasslands that cover nearly 10% of India and more than a third of the land ...

Nalanda’s Dharmaganja was a vast ancient library complex housing diverse manuscripts. Its destruction remains one of the ...

"Out beyond ideas of conquest and colonization lies a legacy of knowledge that shaped the world." — Inspired by Rumi India, a ...

Article link: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/golden-road-how-ancient-india-transformed-worldhttps://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/golden-road-how-ancient ...

THE principal difficulty in the study of Indian antiquities has always been the absence of a chronological framework. The Indians themselves had no idea of what we mean by history. They possessed a ...

India’s brilliant contributions to science and culture often flew under the radar, thanks to a mix of colonial neglect and ...

Indian genetic history is heterogeneous, multifaceted, complex, and unique relative to the population structures of other regions, such as East Asia (characterized by a tendency toward ethnic ...

University of Bath provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. It should come as no surprise that the first recorded use of the number zero, recently discovered to be made as early as the 3rd ...

It was the middle of March in 2014. We were sitting under a mahua (Madhuca longifolia) tree in the hilly, forested heartland of India, breakfasting on locally grown rice, bean sprouts and fish curry.