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Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code and the Uncovering of a Lost Civilisation by Margalit Fox
Margalit Fox reveals the life and struggles of the people behind the decipherment of Linear B, an unknown language in an unknown script, similar to Indus-Saraswati...
An earlier date for Indo-Europeans in Northwest India
Archaeological evidence suggests that Indo-European speakers may have been present in Northwest India two millennia earlier than previously thought. Between 4500...
How old is Proto-Dravidian?
A new paper claims that there existed a super linguistic ancestor, older than Proto-Indo-European, around 15,000 years back. According to linguists, there is a relation...
Gopal’s narrative histories
A collection for all serious students of India’s post-independence history. Early this year, the Marxist historian and anthropologist Vivek Chibber published Postcolonial...
A deadly line
William Dalrymple’s triangulation error. Earlier this week, Brookings published a slickly produced essay on Afghanistan by British author William Dalrymple...
What is Indian secularism?
Secularism is more than laws, concessions, and special considerations. It is a state of mind, at best almost an instinctive feeling, such as India has known for...
Pakistan: Myths and consequences
The Islamic and irrationally anti-Indian elements in the self-image of the Pakistani state have led it down a self-destructive path. Salman Rushdie famously said...
What caused the decline of Harappa?
It is certain that the decline of the Harappan civilisation was not caused by invading Aryans or non-Aryans. In The Wonder That Was India, A L Basham presented a...
The missing prophets of 1857
Evidence proves that the “Anglo-Indian War” of 1857 was a carefully planned operation. From the late eighteenth century to mid-nineteenth century, as the world...
Another nail in the Aryan coffin
A new paper refutes the large-scale migration version of the Aryan theory The Aryan theory has gone through many revisions: Historians and archaeologists like A...
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