British Orientalists worked predominantly with upper-caste Hindu literati and implicitly marginalised Muslims as historical ...

Ancient Indian surgeon Sushruta was already performing cataract surgeries around 600 BCE using sharp instruments to remove the lens. Fast forward to the 19th century, and Western doctors like ...

The volume is an ambitious effort to bring together work by India's best writers across centuries, such as Rabindranath ...

Jyotirao Phule was a social reformer, educator, and revolutionary thinker, who played a very important role in India’s social ...

Among them is Tarabai Shinde, a 19th-century feminist thinker and one of the first to author a modern feminist text in India. Her iconic work Stri Purush Tulana, written in Marathi, came as a ...

"The term juggler became synonymous with Indian magic in the 19th century," writes John Zubrzycki in his book 'Enchantment: The Story of Indian Magic'. The earliest Indian jugglers, acrobats and ...