Beloved of the Gods: Ashoka Maurya in His Time and Ours

The forgotten religion of the Ajivikas can tell us a great deal about the religions and empires of the early Gangetic Plains.

The invasion of Alexander III of Macedon is a landmark event in South Asian history.

How did the kingdom of Magadha lay the foundations for India's first empire?

Death inevitably comes to us all. But how do memories of the dead shape our world

What might Siddhartha Gotama, the Buddha, have actually thought of himself?