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A new exhibition at the British Museum in London traces the stunning evolution of India's devotional art through 189 objects.
Academic point-scoring over long-dead excavators turns a potentially grand narrative into a series of inside-baseball footnotes ...
Students chanting Sanskrit shlokas in the padmasana crosslegged posture with thumbs touching their index fingers makes it look like an ancient gurukul Just that it is the Rajkiya Thakur Harisingh Shek ...
Ancient India: Living Traditions, which opens at the British Museum this week, traces the evolution of Hindu, Buddhist and Jain art. It explores the deepening popular need to see, interact with ...
which examines the region's devotional art reaching back more than 2,000 years, and tells "a passionate story about the three great religions of ancient India – Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism ...
Discover India's 10 most stunning rock-cut temples—from Amarnath to Ajanta—each carved from stone and echoing the grandeur of ...
The Heliodorus Pillar is an Indo-Greek monument in India linking ancient Greek diplomacy with early Indian devotion practices.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi gifted a handcrafted Dokra Nandi sculpture from Tamil Nadu to French President Emmanuel Macron, symbolizing Indian tradition and spirituality.
The maharaja of Jaipur is opening hotels, restaurants and art galleries even as he tries to maintain his family’s ancient traditions ...
PEDDA RUSHIKONDA, INDIA—Archaeologists from the Andhra Pradesh ... an unusual object protruding from the shoreline, The Hindu reports. A three-foot statue of the Hindu deity Vishnu had washed ...