In an age where spirituality often gets lost amidst the noise of modern life, Shiva Purana Unlocked: A Simplified Journey by Manu Siddhartha offers a rare and refreshing beacon of divine light. This ...

Tagore goes to Angkor [in Cambodia] in 1920, and he says, everywhere, I can see India, yet I could not recognize it. How ancient India changed the world© Stephane De Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images ...

Moses, Hammurabi, and Manu are considered as the 'First Lawgivers' of ancient civilisations. The Manusmriti, composed between ...

This enchanting work of ancient history offers an important backdrop to understanding contemporary India. Dalrymple recovers a period that lasted from around 250 BC until roughly the eighth century, ...

His new book is "The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed The World," and William Dalrymple joins us now from Houston on his U.S. book tour. Thanks so much for being with us.

In India, believers in an ancient Indigenous faith seek formal recognition A tribeswoman prays during a sit-in to demand recognition of Sarna Dharma as a religion in Ranchi, capital of the eastern ...

The reality is complex. Ancient India certainly had democratic and republican states, but so did ancient Greece, Rome, and a host of other places.

Focus on the history of the ancient ‘Silk Road’ may have overshadowed the powerful influence of India on the many cultures with which it traded.