In the earliest text written in Marathi, a language of millions in western and central India, a 13th-century religious figure ...

Ancient writing systems tell stories of forgotten civilizations and lost knowledge. Their decipherment often requires decades of scholarly work, combining linguistics, archaeology, and historical ...

Evidence drawn from centuries of Marathi and Sanskrit literature suggests savannas are ancient, stable and culturally ...

Only a few years ago, things did not seem to be going well for India’s various alphabets, often known as the Indic or Brahmic scripts after the historical Iron Age script that is the ancestor of ...

The book brings together three historians who pioneered feminist approaches to Ancient Indian history. It blends personal journeys with academic insights, revealing how women changed the field’s focus ...