PINJRAWAN PANCHAYAT, India — In a remote town in the Indian state of Bihar, a peculiar grave stands. This grave holds the half-burnt books that lie behind the blackened library walls of Azizia Madrasa ...

The Taj Mahal is one of India’s most iconic sites. But this year, millions of students across India won’t delve into the Mughal Empire that constructed it. Instead, Indian students have new textbooks ...

India, Jan. 15 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi, last Sunday (January 11), invoked the history of the Somnath Temple, stating ...

Indian Muslim are expected to be compliant, even as they are denied the ordinary exercise of rights enjoyed by other citizens ...

Begum Aizaz Rasul was the only Muslim woman to sign India’s Constitution and a rare voice of reform in the Constituent Assembly. From aristocratic roots to national leadership, she opposed separate ...

DURING the reign of Mughal Emperor Akbar, “reading and knowing the Arabic language became a vice, fiqh, tafseer and hadith were thrown back and accursed” and an effort was made to “purge the Arabic ...

Who could object to a movie star visiting a refugee camp? Yet when Priyanka Chopra visited Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh last week, Indians bombarded her Instagram and Facebook accounts with ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Narendra Modi rose from his chair and walked briskly towards the podium to deliver another nighttime address to the nation. It was expected the speech would include a rare message of ...

It has lately become fashionable in some circles, particularly among individuals inundated in postcolonial thought, to blame the current conflict between India and Pakistan, and more generally, strife ...