Indian perfume history is an unbroken narrative stretching over four millennia, woven into art, ritual, and medicine from the ...

Nalanda’s Dharmaganja was a vast ancient library complex housing diverse manuscripts. Its destruction remains one of the ...

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R ARELY CAN a spoonful of rice have caused such a stir. When M.K. Stalin, chief minister of Tamil Nadu, addressed the south Indian state’s legislature on September 9th, he celebrated a musty sample of ...

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Indian genetic history is heterogeneous, multifaceted, complex, and unique relative to the population structures of other regions, such as East Asia (characterized by a tendency toward ethnic ...

Princeton University Press provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. As early as Homer, more than 2,500 years ago, Greek mythology explored the idea of automatons and self-moving devices.

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