Several misconceptions exist surrounding Indian ethnogenesis and ancestry, including a strict difference between South and ...

A Linguistic Civilization', GN Devy traces the evolution of Indian languages against the larger historical canvas of human ...

Much simpler than Sanskrit, these were the vernacular of the common folk, and the language of heterodox religions like ...

What does it mean to give Prakrit the status of a classical language? We find out from a Nashik-based organisation that is ...

Tashi Sharma In the undulating beauty of Ladakh lies the Aryan villages which were built around 330 BC, which makes them more ...

Around 1500, Indo-Aryan culture began to dominate the region. Indo-Aryan culture is associated with Sanskrit, a language related to Greek, Latin, and Avestan (the ancient language of Persia)--all are ...

Krushnaji Pandurang Kulkarni, author of Marathi Bhasha Udgam Va Vikas, claims that all Prakrit languages have helped in their own way to produce Marathi ...

This came after the Centre on Thursday recognised Marathi, Bengali, Pali, Prakrit and Assamese as classical languages.

When scholars use the term Aryan, it refers to a group of people who spoke Indo-European languages and called themselves Aryans. And that is how I have used it in this article. It does not refer ...

“English in India has evolved from Prakrit (a group of vernacular Middle Indo-Aryan languages) and in the country, nouns are used profusely as compared to other nations. When people speak ...

Joint Secretary of the Indo-Pacific division of the Ministry of External Affairs, Paramita Tripathi, today said the Indo-Pacific region — home to over 60 per cent of the world population —had truly ...