Cartographical Tales: India Through Maps, which opened at the Ojas Art gallery near the Qutab Minar in the national capital ...

The Mauryan Empire boosted economic activity across the subcontinent, but even 24 centuries ago it was clear that a unified idea of India could not be imposed on such a diverse population.

Let's start with a basic fact: India claims much more land than it controls. Thus, any map of India and its neighbors makes an inherently political statement based on how it depicts their borders ...

Cartographical Tales: India Through Maps, which opened at the Ojas Art gallery near the Qutab Minar in the national capital on August 2 and will continue till September 22, stitches together a ...

Amateur historian Thomas Lessman, who has been researching world history for over 20 years, has created a series of maps of India showing these shifts from 1 AD till the rule of the Delhi Sultanate.

Delhi News:Seeing the sub-continent through vintage maps. Delhi News: ... and the first vaguely accurate maps of India made in the wake of Vasco Da Gama’s arrival in 1498.

The long-awaited MAP Museum of Art and Photography in Bengaluru, India, hopes its 60,000-item collection can help reframe the subcontinent’s art history.

With 2,000 entries ranging from the prehistoric cave paintings to contemporary art, researchers hope the encyclopedia can make the subcontinent’s cultural heritage more widely accessible.

India dominates South Asian subcontinent in terms of geographical size and economic growth. India has a coastline of 7,517 kilometres along which lies some of the most beautiful beaches in the world.