In-depth stories from Indian history

Most people think the history of Indian film is simply a timeline of Mumbai-based Hindi blockbusters. The reality is that regional industries and digital p...

Walk into the National Archives of India on a crisp winter morning. You will see researchers pulling heavy, cloth-bound ledgers detailing the events of ear...

Snow blanketed the streets of Tashkent in early January 1966 as Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri and Pakistani President Ayub Khan arrived in the ...

Explore 19th century Indian history through stunning period art. Discover how paintings and rare lithographs reveal authentic details of colonial expansion.

Citizens and students assume that India's national calendar primarily revolves around August and January independence milestones. April holds the most conc...

On a cold night in 1893, a young Indian lawyer sat shivering in the dark waiting room at Pietermaritzburg station in South Africa. Railway officials had ju...

The tourism sector contributed exactly ₹15.73 lakh crore to India's GDP in 2023-24, accounting for 5.22% of the total economy according to the National Acc...

Many believe Indian tennis history begins and ends with the doubles dominance of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi. The reality spans decades of singles bre...

The political rise of the Indian diaspora began in the 21st century with tech executives and Western elections. The truth is that Indian-origin communities...