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It’s a go-to question at bar trivia: what is the only national flag in the world that isn’t rectangular or square? The answer ...

As most of the eastern part of the archipelago has been on the fringes of economic activity throughout history (located further away from main trade routes), it consequently has been on the fringes of ...

King Kudungga was the first king of the Kutai Kingdom in Indonesia. This is the history of the formation of the kingdom.

What did BR Ambedkar’s research reveal about the origins of untouchability in India, and why did he argue that it was neither ...

Pali, the Indo-Aryan language, was much simpler than Sanskrit. How did it die out as a literary language in mainland India.

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