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 drafted by AI and aimed at a general reader. They aren’t peer-reviewed and they aren’t a substitute for the underlying scholarship — they’re a starting point. Translations of public-domain primary texts are presented side-by-side with the original, credited to the translator. The method page describes the process and its limits.

Who’s behind it

Swaveda was started by an independent reader who wanted a place to send people accessible writing on Indian history without the usual partisan baggage. It is not affiliated with any university, institution, or political organization.

Reader contributions

Anyone signed in with Google can leave a correction or addition on any article. Contributions that hold up against the cited source change the article body and credit the contributor; contested or unsupported notes are preserved publicly as reader notes. The mechanics live on the method page.

Contact

For corrections — a date stated too confidently, a claim that doesn’t hold up, a missing nuance — write to corrections@swaveda.com or leave a comment on the article. Include the article URL and a pointer to what you think we should be reading.

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