5 Best Books On Indian History To Explore In 2026 Elementary level of historical awareness is superficial at the best and ...

IN HIS DECADE in power Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, has centralised the state to an unprecedented extent. Yet his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has failed to attract many voters in the more ...

Office: Blair 306 Email: [[cxzuts]] Regional Areas of Research: South Asia and the Indian Ocean Thematic Areas of Research: Islam, Imperialism and Colonialism, Historiography and Historical Memory, ...

An exhibition of colonial botanical art at London's Kew Gardens gives Indian artists their due ...

Much of the information that can be found on India’s ethnic and linguistic history focuses on the people of northern India. To an extent, this reflects a nationalist reading of Indian history, that ...

The history of the world is, perhaps unfortunately, the history of empires. As far back as historians can take us, humans have sought to subjugate one another, and some have proved particularly good ...

An empire comprises many territories ruled by one centralized governing body, often an emperor or other monarch. As long as humans have had aspirations to rule, there have been empires. Some date back ...

Even if medieval Indian kings didn’t control the entire subcontinent, the region’s wealth and population helped them impact world events. Procession on the occasion of a Durbar (audience) of the Mogul ...