Vernacular stories look mythical and miraculous to us today, but people believed in them during those years. That is why vernacular stories became popular in early times. These were the media of its time. People told stories to exchange information, knowledge, and experience in social contexts. But to many historians, vernacular literatures are merely fables and... Continue Reading →

Akkadian civilization was established in Mesopotamia around 4,300 years ago along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (now southern Iraq) and included areas of modern-day Syria and Turkey. It prospered almost during the same phase when the ancient Indus civilization thrived in the Indian subcontinent. Like the Indus civilization, the Akkadian civilization was highly dependent on agricultural production... Continue Reading →

मुग़ल शासक बाबर ने अपनी वासियत में बड़ी अहम बातें लिखीं थी - “मेरे बेटे! हिन्दुस्तान में मुख़्तलिफ़ मज़हबों के लोग रहते हैं और ईश्वर की बड़ी इनायत है कि उसने तुम्हें इस मुल्क का शासक बनाया है. अपनी बादशाही में तुम मज़हबी तास्सुब को अपने दिल में हरगिज़ जगह न दो और लोगों के मज़हबी... Continue Reading →

Floods are not calamities. It’s time the newspapers and TVs stop carrying negative stories of flood e.g. photographs of houses under water, crops destroyed, public amenity affected etc. Why don’t we see the positive side of it? If one does a cost-benefit analysis, the flood has more benefits. In today’s highly fertilised agriculture, flood removes... Continue Reading →

The ecological cow

Intersectorality in the governance of inland fisheries.Ecology and Society journal-article.Andrew Song.et.al  

Rankean notion of fact as history became so well recognized in history writing during the late nineteenth and twentieth century that causation and reasons for occurrence were looked for in all history. Following his positivism, the Orientalists in India, by branding Indian society as devoid of historical sense, began writing about Indian history. After independence,... Continue Reading →