China’s agricultural mandate and India’s war elephant. In ancient China, the land ethic was focused centrally, if not exclusively, on maximising agricultural production—a duty deemed central ...

Historian William Dalrymple, speaking at the India Today Conclave, challenged the widely accepted belief that China dominated ancient global trade. He argued that India, not China, was the key ...

In ancient China, India was called Tianzhu, a phonetic transcription of the Sanskrit word Sindhu, referring to the Indus River region, symbolizing India’s cultural and geographical importance.

Here, India serves as an anchor rather than as a battlefield or a prize for the most ambitious empires in human history. Its reach beyond its shores, not only to the heartlands of China but to the ...

Buddhism had spread to China from India through the ancient Silk Road and was thriving in the country in the 4th century CE.