The history they got wrong. Essays on maritime trade, ancient India, and the decisions that made and destroyed civilisations. By Nick Collins - Cambridge-educated historian, forty years in shipping.
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How Indian Ideas Influenced Half of Asia
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Over roughly a thousand years India converted much of Asia to its religions, its epics, its scripts and its models of kingship. It managed it almost without conquest. There was no Indian empire in Southeast Asia, no army of o...
How Ancient Greece Got Its Philosophy From India via Phoenicians
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Western histories describe the Greek awakening as an event without a cause. Somewhere around the seventh century BC, in a corner of the Aegean, men who had spent the previous few hundred years farming among rocks began asking whether...
When the Sea Took Half the World
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Twenty-one thousand years ago the map of the world was very different to the one that pertains today. Massive ice sheets covered where London, Manhattan, northern China and Japan now stand. So much of the planet’s water was l...
Migration Out of India Seeded the Ancient World
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Two hills stand on the border of Cork and Kerry, in southwest Ireland. Locals still call them the Paps of Danu. They are shaped like breasts and named for a goddess. Every spring at Beltane, the old fire festival, farmers use...
Beyond Borders: The Indus-Sarasvati Civilisation and Pakistan’s Search for Identity
Note: This essay was first published in New Delhi Post
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Pakistan’s renewed embrace of the Indus Civilisation comes after decades of defining itself almost exclusively through an Islamic identity. While archaeology cont...
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