In order to understand what religion is and deepen one’s insights into what I term ‘the faith process’, it would...
The scene depicted in the ‘Dying Princess’ takes place after Buddha’s arrival at Kapilavastu. The Buddha had, by the time...
The word ‘Hindu’ stems from the Persian equivalent for ‘Sindhu’, meaning Indus, making a somewhat direct reference to inhabitants who...
At a time when north India had immersed itself into the fathomless waters of practising orthodox evils in the likes...
Indian primitive traditions (that can usually, on an average, be traced back to hundreds, if not, thousands of years) are,...
Amongst the very influential families that led at the forefront of reformist movement were the Tagores. Indubitably the most illustrious...
Historian Amélie Kuhrt upheaves the ancient Babylonian text Nabonidus Chronicle to be ‘the most reliable account of the fall of...
Amongst myriad imperialists, the Portuguese were the first to eye the profitable region of Bengal, in as early as the...
With the advent of Islam in Hindustan, came the voguish Arcuate style of architecture which was notably first observed in...
Nau Nihal Singh was the third Maharaja of the Sikh empire whose reign began with the dethronement of his father,...
While Mahavira is regarded as the most popular proponent of Jainism, it was only in the Digambara tradition that his...
Vajrayana is so called because of the tantric cults associated with it. David B. Gray and Thomas Yarnall in their...
Sadly, there exists no established view till date with regard to who originally built the temples. The Hindu Shahis stood...
Lahore Fort, the grandest of all the Mughal citadels ever built in Pakistan, isn’t just about another incredibly opulent fortification...
Aurangzeb’s eldest daughter, Zeb-un-Nissa, had mastered subjects like philosophy, astronomy, mathematics, history, theology and literature. Also, she was identified to...
Analysing broadly, what the British referred to as nautch was a dance form that was specifically prevalent only in the...
The tale of Nangeli is symbolic of a woman’s lone resistance against an authority, bringing about an entire change in...
Although Megasthenes’ deification of Hercules and Dionysus in India, along with several other fictionalised historical facts were ambivalent, he did...
The earliest details of Nagara are to be found in Ptolemy’s ‘Geōgraphikḕ Hyphḗgēsis’, locating it to be in ‘India intra...
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