About Swaveda

Swaveda is an independent site about Indian history. It exists because most of what circulates online about ancient India is either too academic to be readable or too partisan to be trusted. The site tries to be neither.

Articles are written from a curated library of peer-reviewed papers, archaeological reports, and primary-text translations. Every claim cites a source. The full process is documented on the method page.

Who’s behind it

Swaveda was started by an independent reader who wanted a place to send people the kind of careful, sourced explainers that don’t really exist online. It is not affiliated with any university, institution, or political organization.

Contact

For corrections — a misread source, a date stated too confidently, a claim the cited paper doesn’t actually support — write to corrections@swaveda.com. Please include the article URL and a pointer to what you think we should be reading.

For everything else — sources to add, texts to translate, scholars to follow — the same address is fine.