In postcards and photos, the image was so imprinted onto public consciousness that an ancient figurine was later given the ...

Itinerary of François Pyrard de Laval includes a visit to "Inde." On a chilly afternoon in February 1611, the town of Laval, a prosperous mercantile conurbation on the River Mayenne in northwest ...

A devastating rail crash that left almost 300 people dead has refocused international attention on the importance of railways in the lives of Indians. Indeed, to many Western observers, images of men ...

Stories of Indian spices, beasts, saints, and kings fired the European imagination for a thousand years. India anchored ...

You might think that India, a country with nuclear weapons, an ambitious space program and aspirations for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, would have better things to debate ...

Thomas Babington Macaulay, member of the Governor-General's council of India in 1835, famously said that all the literature of India and Arabia were not worth one single shelf of English literature.

South Asians face a far higher diabetes risk due to repeated British-era famines that reshaped metabolic resilience across ...