Muscular wrestlers battle in an ancient tradition that blends Indian combat styles with Mughal-era martial arts.

His 12th book The Golden Road, published this September, is his first crack at ancient India. Dalrymple’s ­argument is that ancient India’s influence—religious, economic, scholarly and ...

an outstanding new account of ancient India’s cultural conquest of the globe. This “Sufi teaching story” about the blind men and the elephant was in effect converted to Islam from Buddhism ...

What the two men found when they visited the site ... Excerpted with permission from The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World by William Dalrymple, and published recently by ...

Many of India’s ideas were buried in ancient texts or passed on orally, making them hard to recognize or credit. So, while the world was busy catching up, India had already been there ...

IT is not an easy task to write a popular introduction to the history of ancient India. A race, destitute of the historical sense, has left few records of early events save poems and dreary ...

The result has been that even at present, after Sanskrit literature has been studied for nearly a hundred years, we are still completely in the dark as to the chronology of ancient Indian history.

Ancient universities such as Nalanda and ... nearly 70 types of structured programmes that attracted young men and women from India and abroad. Comparing the Spice Route with the well-known ...

and tells "a passionate story about the three great religions of ancient India – Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism – and their vitality across time". Featuring around 180 objects (sculptures ...