Our investigation of the disastrous society-wide collapses of four premodern polities, China’s Ming Dynasty, the South Asian Mughal Empire, the High Roman Empire, and Renaissance Venice led to the ...

Ever since the collapse of the Mughal Empire in India, the modern era began in this part of the world with the gradual introduction of English colonial rule since 1757. With the exit of these colonial ...

It was on May 9, 1542 that a child was born to Rana Udai Singh of Mewar and Maharani Jawanta Bai. This child would later be known as Maharana Pratap Singh -- the valiant ruler who never bowed to the ...