RS Sharma wrote in his seminal work, ‘Shudras in Ancient India’: “In point of time the Purusa Sukta version may be ascribed to the end of the period of the Atharva veda, in which it occurs ...

The grandest monuments of Hinduism can be found not in India but in Cambodia, notably at Angkor Wat. Buddhism, which originated in central India in the sixth century BC, transformed Asia. Even in the ...

Ancient India’s greatest engineering achievement wasn’t a monument but a metamorphosis. When Emperor Ashoka, who ruled most of the Indian subcontinent in the third century BCE, saw the carnage ...

Ancient India: living traditions – 'ethereal and sensual' exhibition. Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism are explored in show that remains 'remarkably compact' Newsletter sign up Newsletter; ...

An ancient elephant graveyard is finally giving up its secrets. Remains of straight-tusked elephants known as Palaeoloxodon were first uncovered near the town of Pampore, in the Kashmir Valley, when a ...