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Microlithic Technology, Antiquity and Landscape Geoarchaeology in the Central Narmada Basin

The period between Late Pleistocene and Late Holocene has been very dynamic in terms of lithic miniaturisation. Microliths are small […]

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Haryana and Its Role in the History of Sanskrit Literature

Sanskritic scholarship prevailed in Haryana, long before there was a Haryana. Part of the ancient Kuru-Panchala region known from the Rg […]

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History of Languages and Languages of History in Medieval North India.

It is well known that almost all the north Indian languages and dialects came to be literized during the ‘medieval’ period. […]

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The Importance of Numismatic Evidence in Reconstructing the History of the Greeks in India

The conquest of the easternmost satrapies of the Persian Empire (Bactria, Sogdiana, Paropamisadae, Arachosia, Seistan, Gandhāra) by Alexander the Great […]

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Inscribing Identities, Proclaiming Piety: Exploring Recording Practices in Early Historic

ABSTRACT: My book, Inscribing Identities Proclaiming Piety: Exploring Recording Practices in Early India (2022), focuses on votive inscriptions found in four areas - […]

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Consolidating Empire: Power and Elites in Jahangir’s India (1605-1627) (Permanent Black, 2022)

ABSTRACT: What happened in Mughal India in the quarter century after Akbar’s death? Nothing that really mattered – according to […]

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Consolidating Empire: Power and Elites in Jahangir’s India (1605-1627) (Permanent Black, 2022)

ABSTRACT: What happened in Mughal India in the quarter century after Akbar’s death? Nothing that really mattered – according to […]

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Third Lecture in Ashoka History Spring Seminar 2023

ABSTRACT: We are often told that old ideas won’t do; that we need new ideas and new thinking. But what […]

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Ninth Book Discussion in Ashoka History Book Discussion Series

Book in Focus: Mahmood Kooria, Islamic Law in Circulation: Shāfi'ī Texts Across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean (Cambridge University Press, 2022) […]

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Fourth Lecture in Ashoka History Spring Seminar 2023

Abstract:  The field of bilingual inscription from India is variegated, with many different languages used. In the context of my […]

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Tenth book discussion in Ashoka History book discussion series

Upinder Singh is Professor of History at Ashoka University. Her writings range over various aspects of Indian social, economic and religious […]

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Fifth Lecture in Ashoka History Spring Seminar 2023

Abstract: Throughout its colonial history, Calcutta had been a Hindu-majority city in the heart of a Muslim-majority province. Until the mid-twentieth […]

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