Cartographical Tales: India Through Maps, which opened at the Ojas Art gallery near the Qutab Minar in the national capital on August 2 and will continue till September 22, stitches together a ...

With the end of British colonial rule in 1947, the Indian subcontinent was divided into two nations, majority-Hindu India and majority-Muslim Pakistan. But simmering secular tensions and a hastily ...

By the early 16th century, the subcontinent was once more a patchwork of kingdoms and mini-empires, both Hindu and Muslim (see map 3). In 1526 Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur, a direct descendant of ...