Join Dr. Ankur Barua, Senior Lecturer in Hindu Studies at the University of Cambridge, in his discussion of how the religious poetry composed in Bengali of two major South Asian poet-thinkers – Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) and Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899–1976) – interweaves Islamic and Indic idioms.
In this article Jasleen Kaur examines the parallel political developments and interactions between the powers in Hindustan and the polities of the Mawara’ al-Nahr and the Khorasan in twelfth century, offering insights into how these diverse regions responded to similar challenges, all the while developing distinct political and cultural traditions.
In the first article of his series on Hellenistic Asia, Harald Blot explores the origins of the famed—and equally mysterious—Greco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek Kingdoms, and examines the history of their study.
The Indo-Europeans were a nomadic people, shrouded in mystery. Their existence was first inferred by linguists who identified numerous syntactical and lexical similarities among various languages spoken across the Eurasian continent, from the British Isles to Central Asia. As a result, generations of linguists have faced the significant challenge of reconstructing the theorized proto-language that existed several thousand years ago. Alongside these linguistic efforts, interest in the culture and identity of the people who spoke this language also grew. In this article, I aim to explore one particular aspect of the Indo-Europeans: their religion and mythology, and how comparative linguistic research can help fill the gaps in our limited source material.
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