~By D.P. Agrawal & Lalit Tiwari Zinc is a very interesting metal and was responsible for the innovation of utensils of mock silver and coins of...
By Yasmin Khan, Associate Professor of History at the University of Oxford The numbers are staggering: up to three million Indians were killed by famine, more...
Fatehpur Sikri, that Mughal emperor Akbar established as his capital and is now a World Heritage site, was once a “flourishing trade and Jain pilgrimage centre”....
~ By Inder Singh India’s independence has long been attributed to Mohandas Gandhi, Congress leaders and their struggle for freedom. In the midst of their limelight,...
Their faces are painted in shades of red, blue and green with designs symbolising traditional African body art, they wear bright orange tiger print skirts, straw...
The walls have seven gateways and they are over fifteen feet wide in some places protecting over 360 temples from invaders. Kumbhalgarh is a Mewar fortress...
~ By Archaeology Online A vast quantity of reliable evidence from many disciplines, new as well as old, analysed by widely accepted scientific processes, is rewriting the...
“Nine Unknown Men”, is a secret society founded by the Mauryan Emperor Ashoka around 270 BC to preserve and develop knowledge that would be dangerous to...
Who does not know the name of the great king of Mewar, Maharana Pratap Singh? In the history of India, this name has always proved to...
The year was 1665. Diler Khan, Emperor Aurangzeb’s Pathan commander, had laid siege to the gigantic fort of Purandar near Pune. Behind the massive walls were Chhatrapati Shivaji’s soldiers led...