War Elephants: The Indian war elephant spurred the creation of protected elephant forests (hastivana/gajavana), influencing statecraft and ecological practices.

Ancient Indian art, such as sculptures at the Channakeshava Temple in Karnataka, illustrates the use of war elephants as part of a fourfold army, known as chaturanga bala, which included infantry ...

For domestication, Indian kings captured wild adults and trained them. ... The ideal war elephant was a male with large tusks at the height of its power at age sixty.

Carthaginians used war elephants against the Romans in the Battle of Zoma in 202 B.C., as seen in this 1890 painting by Henri-Paul Motte. A new genetic study sheds light on world’s only known ...

On the day Yogesh became another of the dozens of Indians trampled to death each year, the coffee plantation worker knew from the fire crackers set off nearby that danger was at hand. "Everything ...

At the age of 21 I was one of the youngest officers in the Indian Engineers, and I ended up with 400 Indian engineers under my command, I wouldn’t have got that in the British Army.