History

Mauryan emperor Ashoka reigned over one of the largest, most cosmopolitan and most powerful empires in South Asia. His visionary values and adminstrative genius would have remained unknown if not for the discovery of the Ashokan rock edicts.

Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Over the years, Dr DK Satpathy from Madhya Pradesh says he and his team conducted autopsies on 18,000 bodies. He recalls the horrifying accounts that fateful night on 3 December 1984.

Ace aviator and former chairman of the Tata Group, JRD Tata wrote hundreds of letters to his colleagues, bureaucrats and others during his lifetime. His response to a letter from a school teacher in Kolkata offers a rare glimpse into his legendary work ethic.

Sardar Ajit Singh, freedom fighter and uncle of Bhagat Singh, and Lala Lajpat Rai, organised farmers in Punjab to lead the Pagdi Sambhal Jatta movement that threatened to overthrow the British in 1907.

In a landmark discovery, scientists from India, Australia and the US have found that the first continental land emerged 3.2 billion years ago, in an area that is now the Singhbhum region of Jharkhand.

From fearlessly taking on the East India Company to founding the iconic Dakshnineshwar Kali temple, Rani Rashmoni left an indelible mark on the history of Kolkata.

On the occasion of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's 60th birthday on 14 November, 1949, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel penned a heartfelt tribute to the Prime Minister of the newly independent nation.

Built by King Chanda and dedicated to Hashat Mata, the Chand Baori in Rajasthan is an architectural and engineering marvel, despite its role in history being little known.

Princess Catherine Duleep Singh, the second daughter of Maharaja Duleep Singh, was a woman who used her wealth and influence to help many German-Jewish families escape Nazi Germany and find refuge in England.

Founded in 1891, the Cambridge Majlis offered students from the Indian subcontinent a forum for debates, dialogue and cultural events, even though the British Raj had hoped otherwise.