Revisiting Asoka- III: Ashoka The Terrible
[contextly_sidebar id=”9fNbdtifJBTRSuJJyFO8QXdx2e2Cla2v”] Though Bindusara’s ministers had preferred Ashoka to Sushima and helped him to come to power, they did not hold him in high regard and were More...
Revisiting Ashoka-II: Ashoka’s Rise To Power
[contextly_sidebar id=”698SYlgAUt1bn3LtrT7kEfu53XbGK1z7″] Our story begins in the city of Champa (Champaran), where a Brahmin named Pilindavatsa (also called Janasana) had a very beautiful daughter, More...
The Epoch of Śaka Era: A critical study
The Śaka era was popularly used for dating in the ancient and medieval period inscriptions and literature in India, Nepal, Burma, Cambodia and Java (Indonesia). It is generally believed by the historians that the More...
Book Review: The Ocean of Churn by Sanjeev Sanyal
If history is to be written to make it accessible to the lay reader, the student, and make it interesting, Sanjeev Sanyal is one author I would pick. I say “one”, because I would also pick Michel Danino, More...
Reconstructing The History Of The Ājīvikas
[contextly_sidebar id=”9ESt2LWLO1vg0xiGMne81qYY36gAmpVD”] In my previous articles “A new dating of Mahāvīra based on Mālava era” and “A new dating of Buddha based on the evidence of Sumatitantra”, More...
A new dating of Mahāvīra based on Mālava era
[contextly_sidebar id=”MNg7NBYGh0xSiUlkwaZ40o8dJFuGyweU”] In my previous article “A new dating of Buddha based on the evidence of Sumatitantra”, I presented my reasoning for the dating of Buddha More...
A new dating of Buddha based on the evidence of Sumatitantra
In my previous articles, I presented evidence to show that the currently accepted version of Indian history is deeply flawed due to wrong identifications of the two sheet anchors that have been used to fix Indian More...
Hypocrisy and Indian History: A Public Statement
A public statement by concerned Indian historians, archaeologists and scholars of Indian civilization. On 26 October, 53 Indian historians voiced alarm at what they perceived to be the country’s “highly vitiated More...
Examining the Marxist Version of India’s Past
The 18 September 2015 print edition of the Marxist fortnightly Frontline cover story was a detailed interview of Marxist historian Romila Thapar conducted by Ranabir Chakravarti, Professor of Ancient History at More...
The Present State of Hindu Temples: Morena as a Case Study
[contextly_sidebar id=”Ydn8o3zcQLram6hyZ9Razq7H10rpOPnV”] The ancient Hindu temples in most places in north India were either destroyed or desecrated in the Medieval Era and hence were abandoned by Hindus. In More...