Or, why the best laid plans of urban design sometimes go awry.

Devadāsīs appealed to a longstanding tradition to argue that they had a legitimate position in their modernizing nation.

The voters one scholar studied didn't necessarily think they would benefit materially from being on the winning side. But turnout was over 90 percent.

A German scholar's work on India, meant to foster European unity, instead may have sown the seed of nationalism.

Even though they occupied much of South Asia, British civil servants and their wives wanted a taste of home. Strawberries, for instance.

The Baul and Fakir lineages understand the cosmos through pairs of opposite essences, including male and female.

Using the definition that European theorists invented in the nineteenth century may not work for every society, like the Khasi.

Widespread market failure and unemployment triggered by the coronavirus pandemic have set off a crisis of domestic migration in India.

Mulligatawny soup started as a simple South Indian broth but was changed to appeal to British palates.

On the eve of its 6th polio-free anniversary, India immunizes over 170 million children, despite a lack of roads, reinfection threats, and a periodic mistrust of vaccines.