Migration Out of India Seeded the Ancient World
The pulses of migration west, from the Iranian plateau to the hills of Ireland
Maritime Trade History
The history they got wrong. Essays on maritime trade, ancient India, and the decisions that made and destroyed civilisations. By Nick Collins - Cambridge-educated historian, forty years in shipping.
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Beyond Borders: The Indus-Sarasvati Civilisation and Pakistan’s Search for Identity
Note: This essay was first published in New Delhi Post
The Aryan Invasion Theory That Refuses to Die
The river the Rig Veda praises had already dried up when its supposed authors arrived. The papers now defending that timeline don’t hold up either.
Mesopotamia Was Never the Cradle of Civilisation. India Was.
How 19th-century archaeologists made the wrong assumption about the cradle of civilisation
Bombay: The City That Commerce Built
And Historical Lessons not Learnt
Why Hormuz Has Always Mattered
Every maritime power for four thousand years has understood what the world has been talking about for the last few months.
Why India Lost the Ocean
Four thousand years of maritime supremacy ended within a single lifetime. The cause was not European cannon. It was a decision made in Delhi.
Archaeology's Forgotten Wonders: Yemen's Great Marib Dam and the Aden Tanks
The downgrading of India’s thousands of years of importance in world history, only slowly being rectified, has had other detrimental consequences.
Europe's Indebtedness to Ancient Indian-Origin Ideas
How Maritime Trade Carried Indian Thought from the Ganges to the Mediterranean
Why Asian Maritime Supremacy Collapsed (14th–17th Centuries)
The Danger of Anti-Trade Ideology Destroying Wealth, Prosperity, and Power