History and Historiography / When Pepper gave Bharatavarsha a New Name: The Sink of Precious Metals With pepper at the heart of its flourishing spice trade, India overflowed with coins and other precious metals from Rome earning it the moniker, "sink of precious metals." By Sandeep Balakrishna / 9 Aug 2021
History and Historiography / The Bengal that was the Sprawling Economic Garden of the World The first part of a series narrating the prosperous economic empire of Bengal roughly from the 14th up to the 18th Century By Sandeep Balakrishna / 11 Nov 2020
