Romila Thapar and Namit Arora debate the divide between rigorous scholarship and popular history, revealing the tensions within modern historiography.

The Ramayana and the Mahabharata reached their final written form around 2000 years ago, exactly when the Dharma-shastra was being coded. There is a Ramayana in ...

“Hindu was never a ‘patit.’ It was always a higher-level caste with a higher-level varna. When the British people started the census in this country for the first time, they included castes in it.

De-notified, Nomadic, and Semi-nomadic Tribes must be enumerated separately in 2027 Census and given legal recognition for socio-economic uplift ...

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Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], February 19 (ANI): BJP MLA Nandkishore Gujjar on Thursday defended the felicitation of Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak by batuks (young Brahmin ...

As the Thundering Thandhai entered his final decade, his focus shifted from smashing external idols to re-forging the very language that housed the "Sanskritic Trojan Horse" of the past.

Today, 96 years later, there still exists a common issue that demands similar kind of unity from millions of Indians. It’s the issue of ‘dignity’ that has become a rare commodity for the majority of ...

How the British Stole India’s Queer Pasts and Queer Futures on the Indian LGBTQ+ community’s legacy of colonial persecution and how it continues to shape their future ...

In this thought-provoking episode of Times Mantra, Swami Dipankar explores a question that often sparks debate , did Sanatan Dharma really create the caste system, or has history been misunderstood ...

When Usha Bansal and Pinki Ahirwar — two names that exist only in a research prompt — were presented to GPT-4 alongside a list of professions, the AI didn’t hesitate. “Scientist, dentist, and ...

By creating an ideological hegemony of consent, brahminical patriarchy ensured that women remained closely guarded and therefore maintain the caste system.