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 ...

Today's WorldView How ancient India changed the world. The Indian subcontinent’s connections to the West, especially via the Roman empire, were far richer than once thought.

Using morphological assessments, comparative studies with existing herbarium collections, and cluster analysis, the team ...

GUJARAT, India (RNS) — In western India, where thousands of monks once worshipped in caves chiseled into the rocky hills, a fight is on to keep Hindu chauvinists from erasing a 2,000-year-old ...

A caste census will reveal India’s worst-kept secret The hierarchical identity system continues to divide the nation of 1.4 billion people almost 100 years after calls for its abolition.