From the beginning, when British decided to trade in India, beginning with the trade posts of the East India Company (1612) and increasing after the Battle of Plassey (1757), were no longer about ...

Birsa Munda was a young tribal leader whose spiritual awakening turned into a powerful rebellion against British rule, ...

Delhi’s Modern School has shaped the most crucial years of well-known figures like Khushwant Singh, Gautam Gambhir, and Sonam ...

(MENAFN- IANS) New Delhi, Dec 7 (IANS) The dawn of the 19th century in Hindustan was marked by the deafening sound of European cannon, yet the greatest anxiety felt in the distant councils of the ...

WHEN Britain withdrew from India in 1947, it didn’t leave behind its taste for curry. Generations of soldiers and civil servants had acquired a fondness ...

The Railways was the iron arm of the British Empire. අඟුරු කකා වතුර බිබී කොළඹ දුවන යකඩ යකා is a Children’s ditty I learnt ...

City of Palaces: Kolkata is known as the City of Palaces because the city has a large number of grand colonial buildings, royal mansions, and historic palaces built during the British era. These ...

This cursory missive is prompted by the painfully comical sight of our Deputy Minister of Tourism performing something ...

The Raizada family has been keeping single-screen moviegoing alive in Old Delhi since the Nehru era. Cash registers are still ...

Featuring, among others, memoirs, the peculiarities of the Indian Internet, a biography of a commercial Hindi film director, and a study of the religious movements of Punjab, Haryana and Himachal, thi ...

Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday attended a Christmas celebration at the Cathedral Church of the Redemption, ...

You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall,” Jawaharlal Nehru, the architect of republican India, told the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.