Thousands of years before India was a nation-state (1947), a colony of Britain (the 18th century), or a cartographic vision on a map (1782), it was, in Eck's view, conceived as a geographical unit ...

Reading studies about how European genomes map onto geography, Bose, who was born and raised in Calcutta, thought, “Huh. That wouldn’t work in India.” India is home to more than 800 languages as well ...

In the 1580s, the adventurous son of a Dutch innkeeper found himself on a ship sailing from Lisbon to India. Newly employed by the archbishop of Goa, Jan Huygen van Linschoten was headed to the ...

Jaipur: For the geography paper in class-12 board exams, students should divide the syllabus into parts while revising and practise questions from chapters that carry more marks, say subject experts.

India: A Sacred Geography Diana L. Eck. Harmony, $27 (560p) ISBN 978-0-385-53190-0. At a time of religious intolerance and extremism, Harvard comparative religion and Indian studies professor Eck ...