Colonial Confinement of Hinduism

Before the British Crown officially took over the reins of their colonial empire in India, the preceding period of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century was defining in more ways than one. Of course, common knowledge is that these years were laying the foundation for the events of 1857, but behind the political jargon and …

In Search of Pāṭaliputra

It is always surreal to remember a time when a lot of what we now know about ancient Indian history, particularly political history once belonged to the realm of obscure. We can even be accused of taking the information we possess for granted. To think when the empires of Magadha were not general knowledge, when …