India has banned its railway staff from wearing their traditional uniform as part of Narendra Modi’s sweeping campaign to ...

In the long history of European colonialism, some colonialists did better by their colonies than others, and the legacy is mostly one of still-enduring pain. For example, virtually no one (save Newt ...

In a move to shed yet another colonial relic, railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Friday announced discontinuing the railway uniforms intr.

Taxonomist and curator H.J. Noltie’s new work at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew in London sheds light on the lives of the ‘Company ...

A historian has suggested Britain return looted artefacts to its former colonies instead of vast sums in reparations, after an Oxfam report suggested India was owed over £52 trillion. The report ...

NEW DELHI, July 1 (Reuters) - India replaced colonial-era criminal laws with new legislation on Monday, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government said would make the country more just, but the ...

Thomas Babington Macaulay, member of the Governor-General's council of India in 1835, famously said that all the literature of India and Arabia were not worth one single shelf of English literature.

Indian visitors in Amritsar in 2011 look at a painting depicting the Jallianwala Bagh massacre Credit - Narinder Nanu—AFP via Getty Images One hundred and five years ago, in April 1919, Mani Ram, a ...

Monopolizing Knowledge: The East India Company and Britain’s Second Scientific Revolution Jessica Ratcliff Cambridge University Press (2025) In 1790, speaking to the Asiatic Society of Bengal, its ...

It is hard to accept that India would have remained stagnant but for the colonial rule. Actually, we may have modernised ...