The empress, like many other rulers at the time, legitimized her reign through Buddhism, portraying herself either as a ...

Writing in the state-run Global Times, Zhu stated that the succession “is first and foremost an important political matter”, ...

In sixth-century China, a woman known to history as Empress Dowager Ling ruled over an empire called the Northern Wei.

Tibetan Government-in-Exile President Penpa Tsering has strongly criticised the Chinese government's recent statement on the ...

Prologue An Orphic hymn says that Kypris, Aphrodite of Cyprus, was the “scheming mother of necessity.” She controlled and ...

In the Dalai Lama’s new memoir, Voice for the Voiceless, the spiritual leader directly addresses Tibet’s struggle for ...

Armed with anecdotes, historical evidence, maps and slides, the author-historian outlined India's ancient soft power in his ...

Teaching world history often feels like trying to pour the ocean into a teacup. Its vast scope and complexity can overwhelm both students and educators, reducing the subject to a fragmented parade of ...

The tomb of the ‘evil’ Mughal king is 500 km from the Maharashtra city that is under curfew. Here’s where history’s other bad men are buried, from Genghis Khan to Pol Pot to Hitler to Idi Amin ...

Col Satish Singh Lalotra ‘If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today’—ThichNihatHanh. Faith and ...

Festivities are under way for Nowruz, popularly known as the Persian New Year. Believed to have been celebrated for more than ...

The Mughal Empire, spanning from the early 16th to the 18th century, left a lasting legacy through its blend of Persian, ...