A Remarkable Figure in Indian Politics Dr. Syama Prasad Mukherjee, the founder of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, is celebrated as ...

City renaming in India exposes clash between nationalism and memory politics. From Calvino to India, streets become sites of ...

Fractured Communities by Umar Khalid offers a richly textured, astute history of Adivasis through the struggles of the Ho community of Jharkhand’s Singhbhum region.

NARENDRA MODI, India’s prime minister, is a once-in-a-generation political phenomenon. He commands support for his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) across class, caste and language. He is the face of his ...

The pen might be mightier than a sword but, as Ramesh Chandra Majumdar, one of India’s leading historians of the 20th century, put it in 1970, the spade of the archeologist can be mightier than the ...

The dominant figure in Indian politics for nearly two decades, she was elected prime minister four times before being assassinated by her bodyguards. Indira Gandhi in 1963. She served as India’s ...

Long before Ashoka the Great left his indelible mark on stone pillars and the collective conscience of the Indian subcontinent, another towering figure laid the foundation for one of India’s most ...

Last Tuesday in Tamil Nadu assembly, chief minister C Joseph Vijay recreated the famous Stalin hand-gesture of ‘it’s all ...