And you know, it hugely increases your respect for ancient India. We’ve all received enthusiastic WhatsApp forwards from patriotic friends who talk about how India invented nuclear weapons in ...

IT is not an easy task to write a popular introduction to the history of ancient India. A race, destitute of the historical sense, has left few records of early events save poems and dreary ...

but the find of ancient iron weapons on a burial site in Tinnevelly proves that iron was undoubtedly known in India in very early times; while the piece of iron slag unearthed at Bodh-Gaya shows ...