In the earliest text written in Marathi, a language of millions in western and central India, a 13th-century religious figure ...

More than two years after achieving independence from the British, India adopted its Constitution on 1949. Drafted under the ...

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 ...

Mr. Komireddi is the author of “Malevolent Republic: A History of the New India.” He wrote from London. For three decades, successive American presidents have invested enormous diplomatic capital to ...