Banerjee, an intrepid explorer and talented epigraphist, worked for the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) when the country ...

Right, a ten-foot-tall statue of the Buddha looms inside Shitthaung temple, built in the 1500s by King Man Pa to celebrate campaigns in eastern Bengal ... Rakhine’s rich history and culture.” ...

The much-awaited festival of Bengalis, Pohela Boisakh, also called as Shubho Noboborsho or Poila Baisakh, is widely celebrated in West Bengal, parts of Assam, Tripura and Bangladesh. Many seem to ...

The idea of East Bengal — a team born to fight and defy the odds and a refuge for the displaced — was certainly a product of revolutionary times. This history and more will soon come to life ...

This World Heritage Day, let's celebrate India’s rich intangible cultural heritage which includes living traditions like ...

Despite economic challenges like a falling rupee and rising gold prices, faith-based institutions in Mumbai continue to thrive. Temples such as Siddhi ...

From the 16th to the 19th centuries, the kingdom of Kaabu dominated a swath of West Africa that included ... the guardians of history. Our role is to interpret and preserve the history of our ...

Archaeologists in West Texas have made an astonishing discovery ... in previously gaping holes in North America’s prehistoric history. “We get these incredible snapshots of life, vignettes ...

The history on which the modern India stands is ... Indo-Islamic architecture combined with Mughal and Indian touch, use of precious stones etc made it a magnificent structure in every sense.

Historians usually approach Bengal’s history from Gaur-Pandua in the west (i.e., Ilyas Shahi and Husain Shahi Bengal), but what of early Bengal?