Ikram Sehgal and Dr Bettina Robotika

There are other places of the stone age human activities in South Asia so far no place has been found that matches the splendour of Mehrgarh. This could be due to the missing archaeological research in those areas. Northeast India, being one of the most diverse regions of Asia in terms of human civilisation through […]

Mehrgarh is a Stone Age site located at the foot of the Bolan Pass on the Kachi plain of Baluchistan in modern day Pakistan. Continuously occupied between about 7000 to 2600 BC, Mehrgarh is the earliest known Neolithic site in the northwest Indian subcontinent, with early evidence of farming (wheat and barley), herding (cattle, sheep, […]

A civilisation is a complex human society, usually made up of different cities, with certain characteristics of cultural and technological development. In many parts of the world, early civilisations formed when people began coming together in urban settlements. However, defining what civilisation is, and what societies fall under that designation, is a hotly contested argument, […]

Sikhism is a religion that originated in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent around the end of the 15th century. It is one of the youngest of the major South Asian religions and the world’s fifth-largest organised religion, with about 25 to 30 million Sikhs as of the early 21st century. Sikhism developed from […]

Surrounded on three sides by the sea and closed in the north by high mountain ranges, the relatively segregated geographical position of the subcontinent and the strong and persistent influence of the Indian caste system have resulted in certain specifics with regard to Indian Islam. One is that the spread of Islam has been extremely […]

With the largest population of Muslims in the world, Islam is the second-largest religion in South Asia with about 600 million Muslims, forming about one-third of all Muslims of South Asia’s population. The dominant religion in half of the South Asian countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Maldives, and Pakistan), while assuming the second-largest religion in India while […]

Parsis (meaning ‘Persian’) are an ethnoreligious group of the Indian subcontinent, whose religion is Zoroastrianism. They live chiefly in Mumbai and a few towns and villages mostly to the south of Mumbai, but there are also a few families nearby in Karachi (Pakistan) and Chennai. There is a sizeable Parsi population in Pune as well […]

Christianity is an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. It is the world’s largest religion, with about 2.5 billion followers. Its adherents, known as Christians, make up a majority of the population in 157 countries and territories and believe that Jesus is the Christ, whose coming as the […]

Buddhism like Jainism is a religion that arose out of a critique of Vedic Hinduism. Like Jainism, it does not propagate a God. It is a religion or rather a philosophy based on the original teachings attributed to Gautama Buddha. Gautama Buddha was born in Lumbini, present-day Nepal. He renounced material life because he thought […]

Traditionally known as Jain Dharma, Jainism is an ancient Indian religion. Though Jains claim it to be eternal, it came into prominence in India around 5 AD, at the time when Vedic Hinduism was challenged by demands for reform of its ritualistic approach and the monopoly of Brahmans to conduct rituals. Jainism was one way […]