However, it gets powerful historical and political legitimacy by producing official and governmental knowledge about India’s ...

India is full of mosques established during periods of Islamic rule, between roughly the eleventh and eighteenth centuries. Many Indians believe that Muslim rulers, including the Mughal Empire, often ...

VHP Margdarshak Mandal Baithak asks Hindu families to have at least three children to “protect the existence of Hindu society ...

For example, a 2022 court order authorizing a video inspection of the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi unleashed a flood of copycat cases calling for inspections of various mosques. The litigants argue ...

Outlook’s latest issue examines the ASI’s role in shaping India’s historical narratives and how critics say archaeology is ...

Colorful Ortakoy mosque and Bosphorus Bridge in the background. Istanbul is known for its incredible Ottoman-era (and beyond) architecture and that extends to its mosques and other places of worship.

The Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) launched a drive to reclaim the Hindu temples which are being run by the governments of ...

Mosques were once a rare sight in Japan, but no longer. The latest, Masjid Istiqlal Osaka, opened in Osaka’s Nishinari Ward last year. It is housed in a former factory building.

Both the complaints filed against far-right leaders and events spreading divisive and inflammatory rhetoric, urging immediate ...

The court held that a divorce petition can be rejected where no exceptional circumstance or exceptional depravity has been ...