The slow but steady transformation of the East India Company from a trading entity to a ruling body in India

Tony Joseph wades through genetics, archaeology and linguistics to present a picture of the people who shaped Indian civilisation

Historian-archaeologist Nayanjot Lahiri takes us through India’s antiquity and values at breakneck speed in her new book

One hundred years after the year of reckoning

India’s traditional architecture made amends for its violations of nature

A rare look into the everyday life of the last Mughals

Sardar Patel’s loyalty to the Mahatma and Nehru’s rise to the top

Nehru’s fans and foes come face to face over who would uphold his ideals on an unlikely turf: his official residence as prime minister

The footprints of Hindu-Muslim hybridity defy the received wisdom on the fall of Vijayanagara

The unsung heroines of the Mughal era