The European colonisation on the Indian subcontinent started with the intention of trading and establishing a trade monopoly over the Indian waters. But as tim…

When the European merchant vessels sailed out to trade with India, less they knew about the unexplored world. They assumed that entire southeast Asia is part o…

For centuries, the maps of Spain and Portugal have remained unchanged with respect to the Iberian peninsula. We are not talking about their colonial expansions…

Stretching through 2,520 km and 3,848 km, the Ganga and Brahmaputra rivers are two of the largest rivers in Asia, ranking 16th and 6th respectively. Talking ab…

During the times of the Ancient Age, Kerala was dominated by the Chera ruling class, of which the settlement of Mahodayapuram (modern-day Kodungallur) was the …

Part of today's Maharashtra and Karnataka states, the former Deccan States Agency was a conglomeration of the Marathi Princely States that was one of the e…

The name 'Guinea' appears in every historical era, either geographically or in the form of currency. Although today, the Republic of Guinea is an indep…

Before the Britisher, John Hanning Speke discovered Lake Victoria as the source of the Nile River in 1858,  long before the famous Scramble of Africa took plac…

The Awadh region of Uttar Pradesh consists of the following administrative divisions -  Ayodhya Division  Ayodhya Ambedkar Nagar Barabanki Sultanpur Amethi Dev…

Individual sites of humans existing on the Indus river has existed even during the Late Stone age, roughly around some 50,000 years ago. But the major settleme…

If the British forces broke the hegemony of Indian empires through trade and commerce and expanded it under the so-called 'British Raj', they did somet…