Subhashini Kaligotla, assistant professor of art history, points to a photograph on her computer screen of elaborate sandstone towers at Pattadakal, a medieval temple complex in northern Karnataka, ...

In his book, “Lords of the Deccan: Southern India from the Chalukyas to the Cholas” (Juggernaut, 2022), Anirudh Kanisetti provides a riveting account of the political rivalries, bloody battles, and ...

A new book on Indian business under the Mughal empire provides a timely reminder that the fate of nations is decided as much by accounts books as war and conquest ...

Geography, demographics, religion, technology, and a state’s institutions determined why certain states exercised power and how different regions developed the way that they did.

Episode Four is the story of India in the Middle Ages. At the time of the fall of the Roman Empire in the West, and the European Dark Ages, India had a series of great flowerings of culture, both in ...

Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Vol. 48, No. 1 (2005), pp. 92-117 (26 pages) The laws of corporate groups such as merchants, traders, religious specialists, soldiers, etc.

Vol. 43, No. 1, Expanding Frontiers in South Asian and World History: Essays in Honour of John F. Richards (Jan., 2009), pp. 175-210 (36 pages) This essays deals with a neglected and significant ...

indian society was divided into castes. This division became more complicated when each caste was subdivided and identified by its profession and it was not possible for anyone to change their caste.

Holi is one of India’s most popular and distinctive festivals. But how did the idea of throwing colours in the springtime ...

CALLED to evening prayer, 8,500 schoolboys shuffle in very long lines along a grand arcade built in the shadow of a granite plateau. Barefoot, each wears a white lungi, a red shoulder-cloth and three ...