The pilgrims come and go as strangers. They march like a sea of people, walking toward the spot where they take holy baths, drawn by the hope that the bathing would bring them salvation. But when they ...

"In a sense, we can trace a genealogy for militant Hinduism back to earlier times. History offers evidence of friendly ...

However, they can be adapted for lower grades as needed. In this lesson students explore the early history of Hinduism and create a scrapbook that highlights important gods, holy sites ...

Besides avoiding pitfalls of presentism, past should be taken as a repository of variegated experiences, meaningful and ...

Hinduism is often imagined as a monolith of ... into something like a unified whole (albeit imperfectly). The history of conquerors is central to a kind of postcolonial paranoia that sees Hindus ...

Kashmiri Pandits are the remainder of the original Hindu population of J&K. They are a part of the tumultuous history of ...

The sheer diversity of Hinduism and its inherent contradictions may appear baffling to an outsider. It doesn't tick any of the boxes that would define a religion if we apply the Western definition ...

Hinduism is over 4,000 years old, making it one of the world's oldest religions. It is made up of a variety of different religious beliefs and practices. It originated near the Indus River in ...

Ganesha is one of the most worshipped gods in Hinduism, recognised by his elephant head Ganesha is recognised by his elephant head and is one of the most worshipped gods in Hinduism. He is the son ...

Research areas: Religious & social history of medieval Tamil Nadu; women in pre-colonial India; temple architecture & epigraphy; interactions among and sectarianism in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism ...