Indian History

On Vishwakarma Puja, the machines go quiet. Across factories, workshops, garages, printing presses, and construction sites from Bengal to Karnataka,...

Mirabai walked away from one of the most powerful royal households in Rajasthan not in anger but in devotion, carrying...

Peer Ali Khan was a bookseller in Patna who organized an armed uprising against British colonial rule in June 1857,...

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

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...

Gopal Hari Deshmukh wrote one hundred letters in Marathi between 1848 and 1850 under the pen name Lokahitawadi, meaning one...

Thakkar Bapa gave up a comfortable career as a civil engineer in his forties to walk into the forests and...

Savitribai Phule walked to school every morning in Pune in 1848 carrying a spare sari in her bag, not for...