The reign of Emperor Ashoka (c. 268 – 232 BCE) marks a transformative period in the history of the Mauryan...

The Mauryan Empire was a geographically extensive and powerful political entity in ancient India, flourishing from 322 to 185 BCE....

Gautama Buddha’s life traces a journey from princely ease to renunciation, awakening under the Bodhi tree at Bodh Gaya, the...

Mahavira (Vardhamana) was the 24th Tirthankara of Jainism whose renunciation at about 30, twelve-and-a-half years of extreme asceticism, attainment of...

In the 6th century BCE, intense social, political, and economic churn across the Gangetic plain produced a family of śramaṇa...

The Later Vedic Period (c. 1000–600 BCE) marks a decisive transition from clan‑based, cattle‑rich polities of the northwest to agrarian,...

The Early Vedic Period (c. 1500–1000 BCE) describes the Rigvedic world of cattle‑keeping clans in the Sapta‑Sindhu, organized around chiefs,...

Introduction The Vedic Period spans roughly 1500–600 BCE, evolving from the semi‑nomadic, pastoral world of the Rigvedic (Early Vedic) clans...

The Indus or Harappan Civilization’s urban order began fragmenting after c. 1900 BCE, with large cities such as Harappa, Mohenjo‑daro,...

Introduction Sunayani Devi (1875–1962) stands out as one of the earliest modern Indian women painters, a self‑taught artist from the...