A translation of the dohas of Rahim, general, poet, polyglot and bureaucrat in Emperor Akbar’s administration, that is erudite, enjoyable and edifying ...

These questions have often intrigued me about India’s civilizational endurance, and Himanshu Asnani’s The Forest of Love ...

Safdar Jung, the Persian-born Nawab of Awadh and later Prime Minister of a declining Mughal Empire, shaped one of the most ...

While the majority of Pakistan’s population identifies as Muslim, the nation’s multi-layered cultural identity still ...

A thousand years, twenty-two generations and one shimmering palace overlooking Lake Pichola define Mewar’s endurance. From ...

Migration in North India isn’t just due to lack of development today. It was shaped by the evolution of labour markets under ...

A Popular History, Kashmir historian Sameer Hamdani gives a deeply-sourced and effortlessly readable story of the city that ...

Friends in India and abroad wished to have a compilation of documentary evidence of how Indian State and Supreme Court ...

The Vikings weren’t a unified people, and Scandinavia was peppered with small, warring states ruled by kings, jarls, and ...

While Mughal forces and Maharana Pratap continued to engage against each other in one part of the Subcontinent for over ...

A jamdani sari is a celebrated handwoven fabric from Bangladesh, recognised by UNESCO for its intricate, lightweight, and ...