
On a single night in 1825, the Paliwal Brahmin community of Kuldhara and eighty-three surrounding villages in the Thar Desert...

On a single night in 1825, the Paliwal Brahmin community of Kuldhara and eighty-three surrounding villages in the Thar Desert...

Titu Singh was born in Agra in 1983, and before he was old enough to attend school he was telling...

In the high-altitude village of Gue in Spiti Valley, at roughly ten thousand feet above sea level in the cold...

There is a stretch of road on the Leh-Kargil highway in Ladakh, about thirty kilometres from Leh at an altitude...

Bhangarh sits in the foothills of the Aravalli range in Rajasthan's Alwar district, about eighty-five kilometres from Jaipur, and it...

Every year, between September and November, on foggy nights when the moon has not risen and the wind blows from...

Jyotiba Phule founded the Satyashodhak Samaj in Pune on September 24, 1873, not as a gesture or a philosophical exercise...

Syed Ahmad Khan watched the world that had shaped him collapse in 1857 and drew from the wreckage a conclusion...

Pandita Ramabai earned the title of Pandita from the Sanskrit scholars of Calcutta at a time when no woman had...