Their names used to reverberate through early morning prayers, fire rites, and sacred chants. As guardians of rain, fire, ...

Many Vedic gods were absorbed into the identities of Vishnu, Shiva, or Devi, while others simply lost relevance as society changed. Their stories, however, remain etched in India’s ancient texts ...

A new exhibition at the British Museum in London traces the stunning evolution of India's devotional art through 189 objects.

With Jesus suffering by association with Russell Brand, it’s with some relief that some new gods are “in town” to put the cred back into sacred. Unlike that opening sentence, Ancient India ...

Such physical evidence grounds Dalrymple’s case for India’s centrality to ancient history. The country, after all, was a source of goods as well as of ideas, with both spreading along the same ...