Since 1812, the British East India Company, rapidly gaining ground across the subcontinent and eager to tame the tribes along the Himalayan foothills, had fought a series of battles against the ...

The Kala Dhaka, or Black Mountains, of northern Pakistan aren’t really black. The color refers to the gruesome fate that awaits any outsider who strays into the Himalayan abode of the tribes ...

The day after an attack on tourists in Pahalgam, occupied Kashmir, on April 22, India announced it would “put in abeyance” the Indus Waters Treaty, a Cold War-era agreement that divided control of ...

Polyandry, where a woman has multiple husbands, is illegal in India but allowed in some regions to preserve ancient traditions.