The bulk of your research has been on Islamic legal systems that prevailed in the Indian Ocean region, particularly Shafi’ism ...

The question, where is Kerala, can be answered empirically by simply stating that it is in the southwestern corner of India.

George Michell and his team documented the ruins for over two decades. The author tells the story of what lay beneath, layer ...

Archaeologists off the Kenyan coast have unearthed what may be the wreckage of a ship linked to Vasco da Gama’s final voyage.

These remarkable sites serve as living memory-keepers of the Afro-origin men and women who once arrived in the Indian ...

Celebrations rocked India and different parts of the world as people welcomed a hopeful and fresh beginning after a year ...

The Boeing 777 plane carrying 239 people vanished from radar shortly after taking off on March 8, 2014. Satellite data showed ...

From the 13th to the 16th century, the merchants of Kilwa dealt in gold, silver, pearls, perfumes, Arabian crockery, Persian earthenware and Chinese porcelain; much of the trade in the Indian Ocean ...

Although his specialisation was in ancient Indian history, being from Kerala he found himself more drawn towards subjects like trade in ... across the Indian Ocean were following different schools of ...