The Earliest Settlers: The Ancient Ancestral South Indians (AASI) India’s first inhabitants ... They were hunter-gatherers ...

“I wrote this book as a personal grouch,” said historian and author William Dalrymple to a rapt audience as he introduced his new book, The Golden Road: How Ancient India […] ...

It's now largely forgotten that in the early 1900s, nearly a third of the Arabian Peninsula was under British India.

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, ...

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Before the Silk Road, there was India's Golden Road, says historian William Dalrymple. It was a route that ran from the Roman Empire in the West, to Korea and Japan in the Far ...

Another day in science, another massive, ancient snake discovery. Paleontologists in India have unearthed fossilized vertebrae from a snake that slithered around the sub-continent about 47 million ...

In India, believers of Sarna Dharma, an ancient Indigenous faith system centered on reverence for nature, are seeking formal government recognition.