This census will be the first in nearly a century to include detailed caste data and the first ever to be done digitally.

KM Panikker’s biography, a history of Rabindranath Tagore’s association with Tripura, an examination of various partitions in ...

They eventually established a limited political ... easy to draw in areas with a distinct majority, but Radcliffe soon found that the religious groups were dispersed throughout India.

Sikkim and This year marks 50 years since Sikkim’s integration into India. Before India’s independence, the British, along with the Chogyal royals and Tibetans, played a major role in shaping Sikkim’s ...

Chintan Girish Modi reviews that through India and America’s histories with plastic, the book shows how brands got us hooked ...

The Manipur Conflict: where violence has redrawn the map of lives and livelihoods, the question of governance is not abstract ...

Banu Mushtaq's anthology in Kannada was unknown to Indians, let alone readers across the world. It was translator Deepa ...

Humanity has lived with nuclear weapons for so long — 80 years, this year — without destroying itself, that we sometimes take ...

India, as the responsible and interested neighbour, must ensure that Bangladesh sorts out its own mess without causing a ...

In a May 21 letter, ASI asked K Amarnath Ramakrishna—who led the first two phases of excavations at the politically sensitive ...

At the crack of dawn on May 10, Zakir Hussain had just one prayer on his lips -- that he be able to rescue his young children ...

In a rare move, the Archaeological Survey of India returned a 982-page excavation report on Keezhadi, seeking revisions from ...