Long before the Silk Route there was the Indian Ocean Trade route in which peninsular India acted as pivot. 

From about 400 AD to 1200 AD, India was a large-scale and confident exporter of its own diverse civilization in all its forms, and the rest of Asia was the willing and eager recipient of a startlin...

In 1819, a British hunting party in the jungles of the Western Ghats had followed a tiger into a remote river valley and stumbled onto what was soon recognized as one of the great wonders of India:...

The paintings are possibly the finest surviving picture galleries from the ancient world. Now, the oldest in two of the caves – hidden for decades – have been painstakingly restored to reveal their...

A BRIEF HISTORY OF INDIAN ART THROUGH FIVE MASTERPIECES – PART 2 There is nothing new about India being perceived as a place of great and growing wealth: historically, South Asia was always famous as...

They may be tokens of worship for the many divinities of Indian mythology, but the exquisite Chola sculptures are above all celebrations of human beauty and sexuality. By William Dalrymple.

Mes Aynak, a magnificent Buddhist city, is the most important archaeological discovery in a generation. But it is sitting on a vast copper deposit and is about to be destroyed. William Dalrymple...

A new exhibition of relics from the Silk Route shows how religions merged and heresies flourished. It's a revelation, says William Dalrymple