The architectural landscape of India is filled with breathtaking monuments, but stepwells, known locally as baolis or vavs, ...

Designed by 12 Southeast Indian architects from Mahabalipuram, India — a famous town known for its 7th- and 8th-century Hindu monuments — and located in the rural community of Southwest ...

India is home to some of the world’s most powerful spiritual sites, and among them, the Shakti Peethas hold a divine ...

AYODHYA, India (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday opened a controversial Hindu temple built on the ruins of a historic mosque in the northern city of Ayodhya, in a political ...

Varanasi, an ancient city of temples and gods, is India’s spiritual capital. And here, in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s political stronghold, tensions between Hindus and Muslims are escalating.

AYODHYA, India — With priests chanting and blowing conch shells, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the consecration of a controversial Hindu temple in this north Indian town on Monday. The ...

Millions in India are celebrating Holi. Here's what the Hindu festival of colors is all about. By Arshad R. Zargar Updated on: March 25, 2024 / 10:15 PM EDT / CBS News ...

For Hindus, the site marks the birthplace of Lord Ram, one of the most revered deities in the Hindu faith. But the site is also revered by India’s Muslims for having once housed the 16th century ...

Authorities in Nagpur, India imposed an indefinite curfew in parts of the city after clashes ensued over demands by Hindu nationalist groups to demolish the tomb of a 17th-century Muslim Mughal ruler.

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 senior police officer said at least 30 people died as a crowd panicked at the Hindu Kumbh Mela mega-festival in the northern city of Prayagraj.

The B.J.P. and the R.S.S. conceive of India as an explicitly Hindu nation, despite the fact that the country has a population of more than two hundred million Muslims.