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Tranquebar, Pulicat and Sadras: A Coastal Drive Through the Coromandel's European Past

Why the Coromandel Coast Reads Differently from the SouthMost people drive the East Coast Road south from Chennai toward Mahabalipuram and stop there. The older story runs north and south of that corridor, in towns so small they appear on maps only as dots. Tranquebar, Pulicat and Sadras each belonged…

Times Life · Oct 18

Sivasagar and the Ahom Monuments: Six Centuries of Assam History Near the Tea Belt

What the Ahoms Built and Why It LastedThe Ahom kingdom did not fall to the Mughals. That fact alone is worth the journey to Sivasagar. From 1228 to 1826, a dynasty that arrived from present-day Myanmar held the Brahmaputra valley through six centuries of war, flood, and internal fracture, and…

Times Life · Oct 16

What Medieval Temple Inscriptions Reveal About Sacred Economies

The Archive Carved in StoneThe Brihadeeswara temple at Thanjavur records, in a single inscription from the eleventh century, the names of 400 dancing women, their salaries, their land allotments, and the oil quota for each lamp in the sanctum. This is not hagiography. It is a payroll. The Chola kings…

Times Life · Oct 14

Gyanvapi mosque survey | Varanasi court allows both parties to have access to ASI report

A Varanasi district judge allowed all parties to get the certified copy of the report of Archaeological Survey of India survey done at the Gyanvapi mosque

The Hindu · Jan 24, 2024

ASI assures to send note to UNESCO over inclusion of Srimukhalingam temple in Andhra Pradesh in world heritage structures’ list

Historic Srimukhalingam temple’s chief priest Naidugari Rajasekhar urged Archaeological Survey of India’s Director General Kishore Kumar Basa to use his good offices for the inclusion of the temple in the world heritage structures’ list of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to get special recognition and funds for…

The Hindu · Dec 29, 2023

Gyanvapi mosque: UP court grants extension of another week to ASI to submit survey report

VARANASI: Granting time of one more week to Archaeological Survey of India, Varanasi district judge Ajay Krishna Vishvesha on Monday asked the agency to file report of scientific study and survey of Gyanvapi mosque on December 18.

The Times of India · Dec 11, 2023

Gyanvapi case: Court reserves order on ASI plea seeking extension

VARANASI: Varanasi district judge Ajay Krishna Vishvesha on Wednesday reserved the order on the Archaeological Survey of India’s plea seeking three more weeks to submit the survey report of the Gyanvapi mosque complex before the court. The court is expected to deliver the order on Thursday.

The Times of India · Nov 29, 2023

Cracks on beam of Shree Jagannath Temple’s Nata Mandap must be repaired on priority, Orissa High Court’s Amicus Curiae tells Archaeological Survey of India

Amicus Curiae N.K. Mohanty, appointed by the Orissa High Court, has found evidence of wear and tear in the structures of the Shree Jagannath Temple in Puri, an Archaeological Survey of India-protected monument. The structure dates back to the 12th Century.

The Hindu · Aug 16, 2023

ASI begins survey of Gyanvapi mosque complex amid tight security

A team of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) on Friday morning arrived at the Gyanvapi mosque premises adjacent to Kashi Vishwanath Temple in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi and started a scientific survey of the complex amid tight security. Read further on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News · Aug 4, 2023

Allahabad HC allows ASI to conduct survey of Gyanvapi mosque complex in Varanasi

Allahabad High Court on Thursday allowed the Archaeological Survey of India to conduct a survey of the Gyanvapi mosque complex in Varanasi. Read further on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News · Aug 3, 2023