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 ...

A new report finds that the present-day golden era of Indian billionaires has produced historic income inequality.

K. N. Panikkar shaped how modern India studies its past, questioning easy narratives and confronting the politics of memory. His books examined colonial power, culture, and communalism with unusual ...

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Mukul Kumar's lecture explored how Indian Railways, initially a colonial tool, became vital for freedom fighters and mass nationalism in India's struggle for independence.

Elon Musk has a habit of dropping cryptic emojis and letting the internet do the rest. On October 2, one such gesture — a “🤔” in reply to a post claiming that “there is no such thing as colonisation” ...

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 ...

In the long history of colonial rule in Asia, the shadow of Denmark does not loom large. It would be fair to say that few Indians and even fewer Danes are aware that this northern European nation had ...

MUMBAI, India — Indians are calling it a Diwali gift. On the Hindu festival of lights, Rishi Sunak — who is of Indian descent and a practicing Hindu — has become Britain's next prime minister. Sunak's ...

Creating a class of subjects who were “Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect,” to serve as intermediaries between the colonial administration and ...

New Delhi (CNN) — When British traders landed on India’s shores in the 1600s, they arrived in search of spices and silk but stayed for centuries – leaving behind a legacy that would shape the nation ...