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Without a standardized system to catalog these ancient structures, thousands of legacy sites are being denied vital arch...
26/05/2026

Without a standardized system to catalog these ancient structures, thousands of legacy sites are being denied vital archaeological funding and left to crumble into ruins.

Primary sources:-
Primary Research & Government Reports
DRONAH. (2021).
Challenges faced in heritage management in India and policy imperatives: A research project for NITI Aayog. NITI Aayog, Government of India.Smith, M. L., & Newton, C. (2024).
Cartographies of warfare in the Indian subcontinent: Contextualizing archaeological and historical analysis through big data approaches. Journal of Big Data, 11(120).
Survey of India. (n.d.). Centrally protected monuments. Ministry of Culture, Government of India.
Mission on Monuments and Antiquities (NMMA). (n.d.). National register of built heritage and antiquities. Ministry of Culture, Government of India.
Scholarly Articles & Historical Context
Hooja, R. (2024).
Role of forts in Indian history. Yojana: Forts of India, 68(06), 6-12.Rawat, N. S., Brughmans, T., Nautiyal, V., et al. (2021).
Networked medieval strongholds in Garhwal Himalaya, India. Antiquity, 95(381), 753-772. (Cited for data on “fortalices” and regional density gap).Mita, M. (2024).
A focus on Indian fort history: Medieval and early modern forts of Northern India.
Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture, 2023. Three Hundred Forty-Fifth Report on Issues relating to Untraceable Monuments and Protection of Heritage in India. New Delhi: Rajya Sabha Secretariat.Arthashastra six fort types Kautilya. (~300 BCE / 1915). Arthashastra, Book 2 (R. Shamasastry, Trans.). Government Press, Bangalore. Cited in: Heritage Foundation of India. (2025).
Forts & Mansions. etymology Heritage Foundation of India. (2025). Forts & Mansions

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From a 4,000-year-old staple of the Indus Valley to the world’s sweetest soft power. This is how the humble ‘mānkāy’ wen...
23/05/2026

From a 4,000-year-old staple of the Indus Valley to the world’s sweetest soft power. This is how the humble ‘mānkāy’ went global.

Primary sources :-
Kashyap, A., & Weber, S. A. (2010). Harappan plant use revealed by starch grains from Farmana, India. Antiquity, 84(326).
Warschefsky, E. J., & von Wettberg, E. J. B. (2019). Population genomic analysis of mango (Mangifera indica) suggests a complex history of domestication. New Phytologist, 222(4), 2023–2037.
Mehta, I. (2017). (Lists Langra and Totapuri, the latter being the common name for the parrot-beaked Kilimooku).
Yadav, D., & Singh, S. P. (2017). Mango: History origin and distribution. Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry, 6(6), 1257–1262.
Pervaiz et al. (2021). Cultural diversity: Aesthetic analysis of Persian and Kashmiri Paisley ornaments. Perennial Journal of History, II(II).
Nene, Y. L. (2001). Mango through millennia. Asian Agri-History, 5(1). Asian Agri-History Foundation.

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From a 4,000-year-old staple of the Indus Valley to the world’s sweetest soft power. This is how the humble ‘mānkāy’ wen...
23/05/2026

From a 4,000-year-old staple of the Indus Valley to the world’s sweetest soft power. This is how the humble ‘mānkāy’ went global.

Primary sources:-
Kashyap, A., & Weber, S. A. (2010). Harappan plant use revealed by starch grains from Farmana, India. Antiquity, 84(326).
Warschefsky, E. J., & von Wettberg, E. J. B. (2019). Population genomic analysis of mango (Mangifera indica) suggests a complex history of domestication. New Phytologist, 222(4), 2023–2037.
Mehta, I. (2017). (Lists Langra and Totapuri, the latter being the common name for the parrot-beaked Kilimooku).
Yadav, D., & Singh, S. P. (2017). Mango: History origin and distribution. Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry, 6(6), 1257–1262.
Pervaiz et al. (2021). Cultural diversity: Aesthetic analysis of Persian and Kashmiri Paisley ornaments. Perennial Journal of History, II(II).
Nene, Y. L. (2001). Mango through millennia. Asian Agri-History, 5(1). Asian Agri-History Foundation.

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Even Singapore traces back here. A Srivijayan prince saw what he thought was a lion on the island and named it Singapura...
21/05/2026

Even Singapore traces back here. A Srivijayan prince saw what he thought was a lion on the island and named it Singapura, Simha (lion) + pura (city). Lion City. In Sanskrit.

Primary sources:-
Monier-Williams, M. (1899). A Sanskrit-English dictionary. Oxford University Press.

Steingass, F. J. (1892). A comprehensive Persian-English dictionary, Routledge & Kegan

Kittel, F. (1894). A Kannada-English dictionary. Basel Mission Book & Tract Depository.

D. R. Nagaraj (2006). Place names and cultural memory in Karnataka. Indian Folklife, 24, 12–15.

Monier-Williams, M. (1899). A Sanskrit-English dictionary. Oxford University Press.

Sharma, R. S. (1993). Sacred rivers and pilgrimage geography in early India. Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, 54, 45–58.

Kane, P. V. (1953). *History of Dharmaśāstra* (Vol. IV). Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute.

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Before yoga was a global phenomenon, one woman had to fight just to be allowed to learn it. Primary sources:- Insights a...
16/05/2026

Before yoga was a global phenomenon, one woman had to fight just to be allowed to learn it.

Primary sources:-
Insights and questions. University of Vienna.Bhavanani, M. D. (n.d.). The history of yoga from ancient to modern times. ICYER at Ananda Ashram.Bhavnani, A. B. (n.d.).

A brief geographical history of yoga in modern India. International Centre For Yoga Education and Research (ICYER), 1(2), 156-168.Black, S. (2022).

Yogic style in motion: experiments in power and knowledge. Textual Practice, 36(4), 605-625.Brown, J. (2009).

Yoga therapy is not yoga. International Journal of Yoga Therapy, 19, 25-26.
Center for Race and Gender. (2016).

Yoga Justice/Yoga Violence Conference [Research Report]. UC Berkeley.Douglass, L. (2007).

How did we get here? A history of yoga in America, 1800-1970. International Journal of Yoga Therapy, 17, 35-42.Edelmann, J. (2018).

The history of yoga [Course Syllabus]. University of Florida.Holistic Health Care Foundation Bangladesh. (n.d.).

Introduction to yoga and meditation program.Martins, R. A. (2025).

Mokṣa: A historical overview of yoga in India. Shri Yoga Devi.Muñoz, A. (2024).

Revolution and spiritualism: An unlikely chapter in the history of yoga in Mexico. Asian Ethnology, 83(1), 123-152.Newcombe, S. (2017).

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Biryani might be India’s biggest food debate.What’s your favourite kind?[Biryani history, Biryani origin, types of Birya...
13/05/2026

Biryani might be India’s biggest food debate.
What’s your favourite kind?

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Primary sources:
Abraham, A. M. (2019). Where the flavours of the world meet: Malabar as a culinary hotspot. CASS Studies [1].
Hassan, J., Manu, T., Kumaradas, S., & Ampotti, A. K. (2020). Arab accounts of Malabar history: The early episodes. Heritage: Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies in Archaeology, 8(1), 791-810 [2, 3].
Kapoor, A. (2021).Amalgamation of culture and cuisines: Indian culinary culture. International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences (IJELS),6(4) [4].
Venkataraman, S. (2017).Tracing the trails of the Nawabi dish - Biryani [Research paper]. Academia.edu [5-7].

Please note that other materials in your sources, such as the book by Colleen Taylor Sen [8], or the encyclopedia entries from Sahapedia [9-11], are historical texts, reference articles, or general guides rather than peer-reviewed research papers.

Forget the heat—India’s ‘truest’ desert is actually hiding in the cold mountain vacuum of Ladakh.These are the following...
09/05/2026

Forget the heat—India’s ‘truest’ desert is actually hiding in the cold mountain vacuum of Ladakh.

These are the following research papers that have been used :-

India Meteorological Department. (n.d.). Climate data. Government of India.
National Institute of Hydrology. (n.d.). Hydrological studies in cold desert of Ladakh. Government of India.
Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology. (n.d.). Palaeoclimate and environmental changes in Ladakh.
Ministry of Jal Shakti, Department of Water Resources. (n.d.). Arid and semi-arid regions of India. Government of India.
NASA Science – Mission: Biomes. (n.d.). Desert biome. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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From ancient rituals to modern science, jasmineremains a timeless symbol of intimacy and calm[ Indian Jasmine vs. Rose S...
06/05/2026

From ancient rituals to modern science, jasmine
remains a timeless symbol of intimacy and calm

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The tale of two brothers, a tiger and a human.Primary Sources Aiyadurai, A. (2016). ‘Tigers are our brothers’:Understand...
04/05/2026

The tale of two brothers, a tiger and a human.

Primary Sources
Aiyadurai, A. (2016). ‘Tigers are our brothers’:
Understanding human-nature relations in the Mishmi Hills, Northeast India.
Conservation and Society, 14(4), 305–316.

Jilen, C., Mepo, B., & Amung, R. (2025).
Philosophical foundations of shamanism among the Galo and Idu Mishmi tribe of Arunachal Pradesh:
Divine selection and spiritual responsibility.
Journal of South Asian Research, 3(2), 343–366.

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30/04/2026

These sounds aren’t just heard, they are felt

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We’ve become so obsessed with the destination that we’ve forgotten the point of the journey.[ Char Dham Yatra 2026, Utta...
28/04/2026

We’ve become so obsessed with the destination that we’ve forgotten the point of the journey.

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