The Ancient Geography of India. I. The Buddhist Period, including the Campaigns of Alexander, and the Travels of Hwen-Thsang. By Alexander Cunningham., Major-General, R.E. With thirteen maps.

though he himself describes the “Lehrbuch” as a “Werkchen”—has brought together a vast amount of well-digested information respecting ancient geography, so that the book excites the ...

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 ...

By invoking this historical geography of a ... that stitched together the ancient world, Dalrymple argues, but a “Golden Road”, named for the riches of ideas and knowledge associated with the ...

In 1898, British landowner William Claxton Peppé excavated an ancient funerary monument on his estate in northern India. The site revealed a trove of 1,800 jewels, as well as ash and bone fragments.

Mushtaq is the sixth female author to be awarded the prize since then. Written in Kannada, which is spoken by around 65 million people, primarily in southern India, Porter praised the “radical ...

The Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) obligates both India and Pakistan to ensure that ... At Harappa, according to historian Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, author of Ancient Cities of The Indus Valley ...