We are in ancient India, where you are the lucky recipient of a front-row seat to an archery contest devised by King Drupada, ...

Wadiyar IV was very different from many kings. He received both Western and Indian education and wasn't interested in living ...

Chandragupta Maurya, India's first emperor, overthrew the Nanda dynasty. He unified the subcontinent and established the ...

King Tutankhamun's legacy continues to fascinate, nearly a century after his tomb's discovery. Recent research unveils that ...

Why the caste of an ancient Indian king has sparked a modern political battle Gurjars and Rajputs, both electorally significant communities in the Hindi heartland, claim king Mihir Bhoj belonged ...

So begins a cycle of 25 ancient stories known in parts of India as the “Vetala Panchavimshati.” Although it may well be two or three thousand years old, it was first written down about a ...

No other Indian fruit can match the mango for its historical significance, its sociocultural importance and its almost ...

Indian history writing began with two itihasas.Rishi Narada narrated the Ramayana, about Rama, to Valmiki; the latter made it into a fantasy full of flying monkeys and demons.The Mahabharata, the ...

Gametion’s Ludo King has reached a landmark milestone for its developer and the Indian gaming industry as a whole, having become the first mobile game from the region to surpass one billion downloads ...

Outside the eastern India hill resort of Ranchi last week 5,000 people, many in loincloths, some decked out in peacock feathers and silver ankle bangles, listened to a dapper, cigar-smoking orator ...