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A writer from an oppressed Hindu caste publishes a cookbook that he hopes will shatter the notion of a mostly vegetarian India.

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He focuses on the contribution of ancient India to mathematics, astronomy and Buddhism, not through wars and conquest but through its merchants, monks and artists. As all his other books on history, ...

It was a casual Friday evening, just after learning to stand and balance on a paddle boat, when it became clear that the ...

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That also got me back into writing about India’s ancient history and early past,” he says ... “Macaulay famously wrote that a single shelf of good English books is worth more than the whole native ...