School textbooks have become the latest battleground for Hindu nationalism in India, as education officials have deleted key passages about Muslim rule during the Mughal empire. The textbooks, ...

Ganesh Devy has spent decades documenting India’s hundreds of distinct languages. Up next: a 12,000-year history of India he hopes will help counter the government’s Hindu-first campaign. By Sameer ...

States worry that the imposition of Hindi, the main language of northern India, would wipe out their cultural heritage. By Anupreeta Das Reporting from New Delhi In India, the land of more than a ...

IN HIS DECADE in power Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, has centralised the state to an unprecedented extent. Yet his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has failed to attract many voters in the more ...