In fact, it is doubtful that caste had much significance or virulence in society before the British made it India's defining social feature. The pre-colonial written record in royal court ...

Explore the Anglo-Sikh Wars, their causes, key battles, and significance in shaping Indias political landscape.

But the partition of British India into the new nations by a line drawn by a civil servant on a map, triggered a series ... when it was subjected to colonial rule. For most of the last 2,500 ...

The year is 1912, and India is under the control of the British ... painted map murals. Perhaps tellingly, the maps were based on those produced by European cartographers in the 16th and 17th ...

Prakash Kumar documents the history of agricultural indigo, exploring the effects of nineteenth-century globalization on a colonial industry in South ... new kind of history of indigo cultivation in ...

Ravi criticized the British colonial period for attempting to destroy ... Tamil Nadu state highlighted red in map of India. (Credit: Wikipedia.) Tamil Nadu is the southernmost state of India ...

The district is believed to have borrowed its name from a village called Kanathoor, the place of Lord Krishna..kerala tourism ...

It was hailed as a momentous step to stamp out traces of British colonial rule in India which began in 1857, lasting 89 years. They replaced the 164-year-old Indian Penal Code, the 152-year-old ...

Ratan Tata, a pillar of India's proud but dwindling Zoroastrian Parsi community, who led the Tata Group for decades, died in ...

Indian industrialist Ratan Tata, who is credited with transforming the Tata Group into a globally renowned conglomerate, has died at age 86, the company said late Wednesday.

After years of legal wrangling and negotiations, Britain said it would surrender sovereignty of the archipelago in the Indian ...

Israel’s onslaught against Gaza has now continued for more than a year; it shows no sign of ending, and Benjamin Netanyahu’s ...