Indian History

It was an era where poets were kings of words, and kings were patrons of art. From the love poems...

He was born a prince, destined for a life of luxury, but one look at the world’s suffering changed him...

He was a prince who wore the finest silks, yet he chose to walk naked under the scorching sun. He...

In the 6th century BCE, the smoke of sacrificial fires was replaced by the light of wisdom. As the caste...

They discovered iron, cleared the jungles of the Ganges, and built the first kingdoms of India. As rituals became complex...

Before the great kingdoms and complex rituals, there was a time of simple prayers, cattle wealth, and tribal assemblies. Discover...

They had drainage systems better than 18th-century Europe and trade networks that reached Mesopotamia. Yet, by 1900 BCE, their great...

Nil Darpan (1860) is a seminal Bengali social drama that exposed the coercion, debt-bondage, and violence inflicted by European indigo...

Introduction Painted in 1905 during the Swadeshi movement, Abanindranath Tagore’s Bharat Mata is one of the earliest and most influential...

Signed on 10 January 1966 under Soviet mediation, the Tashkent Declaration ended active hostilities of the 1965 India–Pakistan War and...