To outsiders, India seems like a homogeneous monolith. Proof? Ask Indians how many times they have been questioned, "Do you speak Indian?" Far from this myth, India is home to hundreds of languages, ...

India’s history is a vast tapestry woven with diverse cultures, civilizations, and peoples, many of whom predate what we now recognize as the dominant Aryan culture. For centuries, historians, ...

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Along the upper stretch of the Indus River, hidden between steep rocky hills, lie the small villages of Ladakh, once promoted as ‘The Last Aryan Settlements’. For generations, the Brokpa people of Dah ...

The pen might be mightier than a sword but, as Ramesh Chandra Majumdar, one of India’s leading historians of the 20th century, put it in 1970, the spade of the archeologist can be mightier than the ...