To the House of Commons India Secretary Leopold Stennett Amery, redundant master of officialese, declared last week: “There is no famine [in India] and no widespread prevalence of acute shortage.” ...

Over 130 refugees from Myanmar have been on a hunger strike at the Matia Transit Camp in Assam, India since Monday, according to a Thursday Facebook post from Rohingya rights activist Sabber Kyaw Min.

SOME time ago, when Dr. Hoernle was preparing an edition of two old Indian medical, tracts, preserved in the Bower manuscript of the fifth century A.D., he was surprised to find how little we knew ...

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 ...