Like the British Raj, Hindu nationalists promote ideas about history that are neither truly Indian nor accurate.

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

At a time of major shifts in West Asia, the challenge for India is to engage all major regional actors. When it comes to Iran ...

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 ...