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HistoriCity | India’s population through the ages

How do we possibly understand India’s demography in pre-modern times? As we move further back into the past, the sources of information on...

05.10.2025 40

hindustantimes

Valay Singh

HistoriCity | The complicated relationship between religions and women

Women and their access to places of worship has been restricted or even completely denied in all ancient religions

01.09.2025 20

hindustantimes

Valay Singh

HistoriCity: Uttarakhand’s Harshil was once an English deserter’s playground

Whulson Singh, or Frederick Wilson, was born in Yorkshire, in 1817. Like many Englishmen, he joined the East India Company and found himself at Meerut

10.08.2025 10

hindustantimes

Valay Singh

HistoriCity: Secular alliances in battle of Haldighati and its forgotten hero

Far from the communal tinge given to the battle, Haldighati richly exemplified the shifting allegiances among kingdoms and rulers.

05.06.2025 10

hindustantimes

Valay Singh

How 2 Indian, Pakistani army officers, also friends, set up Wagah check-post

At its core, the ritual at Wagah is emblematic of the rivalry between the conjoined twins locked in endless conflict

22.05.2025 10

hindustantimes

Valay Singh

HistoriCity: How caste evolved in ancient India

The Dharmashastras, among which Manusmriti remains preeminent, clearly distinguishes between Shudras and the twice-born castes

16.04.2025 20

hindustantimes

Valay Singh