Imagine a land where rivers hummed with trade boats, cities gleamed with artisanal splendor, and knowledge blossomed in ancient universities that welcomed the curious from around the world. This was ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio — It’s strangely unsettling to peer into the razor-sharp, beautifully toned photographs of 19th-century English colonial gentry, servants, and native royals in India, now on view at ...
Throughout history, empires have survived only as long as they could project their power. This power could be real or imagined, but it must be believable to its subjects. In 1942, the British Empire ...
Rangia uprising of 1893 was a peasant revolt in Assam against British land revenue policies, highlighting resistance to colonial rule.
In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, British colonial rule in India initiated a series of legal and administrative interventions that profoundly reshaped lives, identities and social ...
It is hard to accept that India would have remained stagnant but for the colonial rule. Actually, we may have modernised ...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - In a nondescript corner of Delhi, white marble statues and busts of British royalty and viceroys, including King George V, languish in a park filled with filth, feces and wild ...