One of the big contentions of popular historian William Dalrymple’s latest book “The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World,” which came out in the United States a few weeks ...

Coin of ancient Greek Queen of India, Agathoclea Theotropus. Image Credits: CNG Coins via Wikipedia, CC-BY-SA-3.0. Unlike kings, there have been only very few queens throughout world history who have ...

If, in the ancient Indian context, it was a bad thing, a dangerous ... They are treated like gods pretending to be men; in effect, they are made into avatars. In this view, saints are born saints; ...

the excellent among young men, Devadinna by name, the rupadaksha, loved her (kamayitha). The underlying message of the book is as clear as it is direct. Just as ancient India was anchored by ...

Our Indian subcontinent has its own secrets and ... to be founded 2000 years ago by Emperor Ashoka – the Nine Unknown Men. This secret society allegedly held the power to manipulate political ...

Homosexual men who assumed the ‘passive’ role in ... It’s impossible to talk about homosexuality in ancient India without referring to one of its most affirmative and visual ‘proofs ...

The world learned about the existence of these unknown men in 1923 through Talbot Mundy's book 'The Nine Unknown Men, a Member of the British police force who served India for 25 years.

Ancient India’s expertise is metallurgy is reiterated ... The Dialogue of East and West, "When the men of Alexander the Great came to Taxila in India in the fourth century BC they found a ...

Bodas’s claim about vimanas is only one in a series of recent pronouncements about the technological marvels of ancient India. Since the Hindu right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), led by the ...