India, Oct. 10 -- Think of colonial India, and the usual suspects emerge - Kolkata's mansions, Mumbai's forts, Chennai's boulevards, and Pondicherry's French Quarter. These cities were epicentres of ...

During and after the First Anglo-Afghan War, the British embarked on a hybrid form of colonialism, it didn't work. The great statesman’s literary career was shaped by fighting in some familiar ...

We live in the age of the emergency state. The nature of globalization and its security challenges — whether in the form of terrorism or global pandemics — requires the state to remain constantly on ...

India’s president assented Monday to three new post-colonial criminal law reform bills, paving the way for their enactment. The Ministry of Law and Justice of the Government of India officially issued ...

When Queen Elizabeth I signed a charter for a new trading mandate named the East India Company on New Year’s Eve in 1600, ...

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 long after their ...

Still from “Panorama of Calcutta” (1899), the earliest extant film of India (screenshot via YouTube) The British Film Institute (BFI) has digitized and uploaded a major trove of rarely seen films from ...