Emperor Paul I and one of the leaders of the Bolsheviks, Leon Trotsky, wanted to take away the main source of wealth from the British. “The Jewel in the Crown” is what the British called India.

From the invasion of Egypt and his declaration to the Directoire that, once he became the master of the land, he would join ...

It isn’t only multiple eras of history that intertwine here in this sliver of Old Delhi. Several houses of worship co-exist ...

Now that Sir Keir Starmer has unilaterally decided to give up British ownership of the Chagos Islands, the last vestige of ...

And I felt I didn't really have any history of my own when I was growing ... Everyone born in British India up to 1947 was a British subject by birth. [But] I'd never seen him as that.

In a time when photography was celebrated as a precise "pencil of nature," it was seen as a pure record of reality—detailing ...

BHUBANESWAR: A lot has been written on the non-violent history of India’s freedom struggle. The time has come to write about ...

Hobbs was a remarkably sanguine young man and he cheerfully travelled enormous distances by country boats and palkis or ...

The Great Mughal, Song of Draupadi, Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens, and Begums of the Mughal Empire, and Heroines: ...

Chief justice observes distribution of work among prisoners 'based on their caste hierarchy is discriminatory, ...

The popularity of the game among British and Indians in 19th century Bombay inspired Marathi and Gujarati texts explaining ...

The collector and curator Rajan Bijlani will showcase the works of six artists and his sizable design collection in ...