Who are we when we are seen through someone else’s eyes—through a lens or a brushstroke? For years, artists have grappled ...

A short drive away from Windsor Castle, a group of ferocious-looking, blue-turbanned men are trying to preserve a martial art that frightened the life out of the British when they ruled India.

MUMBAI, March 5, 2009 – Lifestyle needs of the British colonialists dictated the kind of silver that was produced by Indian artisans duringthe British Raj. But the decorations on that silver reflected ...

Hats off to the V&A, then, for examining Britain’s imperial past in a straightforward, honest manner – neither varnishing unpleasant truths nor deliberately dulling the sparkle of the British Raj.

The original goal of the organization, founded in 1927 in India, was to oppose the British Raj and “to stop the dilution of Muslim identity in the cosmopolitan cities of British India.” Its ...

Bengal School of Art. The Bengal School of Art was an influential style of art that flourished in India during the British Raj in the early 20th century.

The GRI noted that the collection represents the work of 235 photographers, 61 of whom are Indian. Other contributors hail from Britain, France, Germany, Zanzibar, China, and the US.

An ongoing art show at DAG Delhi and a new book by Trinity College literature professor Sarah Bilston revisit two ways in which the British sought to collect plants as well as knowledge about ...