One of the big contentions of popular historian William Dalrymple’s latest book “The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World,” which came out in the United States a few weeks ...

Source: PTI In a discovery that could reshape our understanding of early human settlement in central India, researchers ... dynasty inhabited the Deccan plateau, from about the 2nd century BCE ...

So Liu and colleagues searched databases of ancient Chinese poems for references to the porpoise, sometimes called the “river pig” or other nicknames. After ruling out references based on ...

Within the framework of the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean, co-directed by Johannes Krause, Director at the Max Planck Institute for ...

These ten home grounds, scattered across India’s vast geography, are more than concrete arenas ... Beige walls, shaded corridors, and long horizontal lines reflect the Deccan Plateau’s architecture — ...

New Delhi: The ancient game of kho kho is enjoying a resurgence in India, with organisers of the first international tournament hoping their efforts will secure the sport's place in the Olympics.

The serial devastation in India's forests with criminal abandon has laid the ... the scrub forests of the Deccan plateau denuded and the evergreen forests reduced to a paltry 5 per cent from the ...

Dravidian division based on geography or caste. In reality, modern—and in fact ancient—Indian populations ... as the Gangetic plains and the Deccan plateau, eventually extending influence ...

In his latest book, 'The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World', Dalrymple looks back at ancient Indian exports from Buddhism and Hinduism to astronomical texts, the number zero and ...

The award-winning historian William Dalrymple narrates a version in The Golden Road, an outstanding new account of ancient India’s cultural conquest of the globe. This “Sufi teaching story ...