People have been choosing plant-based diets for thousands of years, for reasons that go far beyond food fads. From ancient ...

Kalamkari art is characterized by its themes, which are often drawn from mythology or nature. Common motifs include scenes ...

The figure of Chanakya looms large in traditional accounts of ancient India; a Brahmin sage-statesman, described as the ...

THE principal difficulty in the study of Indian antiquities has always been the absence of a chronological framework. The Indians themselves had no idea of what we mean by history. They possessed a ...

Spices, ancient treasures of human civilization, have shaped history from currency to royalty and medicine. Traces of their ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The annual journal of the Indian History Congress, entitled The Proceedings of the Indian History Congress carries research papers ...

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Only a few years ago, things did not seem to be going well for India’s various alphabets, often known as the Indic or Brahmic scripts after the historical Iron Age script that is the ancestor of ...

Each of the six systems of Hindu philosophy is a search not for divinity but for what the truth could be behind the bewildering plurality of this vast cosmos On a flying visit to Colombo last week, I ...

NCERT aims to provide accurate historical context in math education, moving away from colonial perspectives in line with NEP ...