Historian William Dalrymple, speaking at the India Today Conclave, challenged the widely accepted belief that China dominated ancient global trade. He argued that India, not China, was the key ...

China’s agricultural mandate and India’s war elephant In ancient China, the land ethic was focused centrally, if not exclusively, on maximising agricultural production—a duty deemed central ...

Scylax of Caryanda was a Greek explorer sent by Persian King Darius I to chart the Indus River, shaping early Greek ...