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Archaeological discoveries suggest that Rajasthan, the ‘Land of Kings,’ has been inhabited for many thousand years. One maybe able to trace its origins back to the Indus Valley Civilization. - Newsx

Travelling with Jorge Luis Borges in the Mewar region of Rajasthan is to discover parallels and paradoxes of history, across time, space, and infinity. Maharana Raj Singh, the Custodian of Mewar from 1652 to 1680 CE, planned and built Rajsamand, one of the biggest man-made freshwater lakes of its time; he ordered court historians, poets, and genealogists to install the largest set of inscriptions on marble detailing the history of Mewar and its Maharanas on the lake-front

Jain manuscript repositories are less known than Buddhist centres of learning because their libraries of manuscripts and traditions of copying and depositing these in temple libraries remained on the margins of Western as well as Indian scholarship

The passionate outburst of rain showers that take place in the middle of the year has been extensively chronicled by foreign writers in India, accompanying expressions ranging from horror, awe and alarm to amusement and longing.

According to the 2011 Census, their population in Bengaluru was 11,892. Today, the Hakki-Pikki communities reside in the districts of Hassan, Ballari, Davanagere, Shivamogga, Tumakuru, Bengaluru, Mandya, Chikkaballapur, and Ramanagara in Karnataka.

On some occasions, the story of Padmavat has been used to enforce patriarchal thinking, sometimes to create historical consciousness, and sometimes to maintain positions of power by reconstructing a heroic past for specific groups

Padmavat, a tale of a mythical queen featuring love, honour, and sacrifice, has captured the imagination of readers and audiences  for centuries.

Guests can take part in ecotourism activities like farming with the locals and indulge in the beauty of a hilltop sunset.

What is the motivation of the vested lobby to espouse the barbaric Mughals and tout them as the torchbearers of Bhartiya culture? Time is ripe for a course correction in Indian history

Having defined secularism as poly-religiosity rather than state neutrality toward religions, the Indian polity finds itself shuttling between extremes.