Nalanda University was founded in 427 CE (5th century) by the Gupta Emperor Kumaragupta I, son of ChandraGupta II, who was a powerful ruler of the Gupta Dynasty, and ruled during the 5th century, from ...
I was born and raised in the Nalanda district of Bihar. Yet, much about Nalanda was a mystery to me. I wanted to understand why Nalanda became such a celebrated Buddhist monastery-university, what was ...
Owing to much suppression and alteration of India’s history by the Mughals, the British till 1947, and its Nehruvian hijacking for at least seven decades thereafter, the uniqueness and magnificence of ...