Indian visitors in Amritsar in 2011 look at a painting depicting the Jallianwala Bagh massacreNarinder Nanu—AFP via Getty Images One hundred and five years ago, in April 1919, Mani Ram, a middle-aged ...
The 4,000-km-long border, known as the ‘Great Hedge of India’, served to prevent smuggling of salt done to avoid the heavy tax imposed on it by Britishers ...
“THE THINGS the British did in India are simply not taught in the syllabus and this is a problem,” said William Dalrymple at the Jaipur Literary Festival in September 2020. “When the British go out ...
The 200 years of Britain’s colonial rule of India was a time of seminal transformation and change - for India, for Britain, and for the world. In A History of British India, explore how the British ...
On December 23, 1912, an explosion rocked Delhi just as Lord Hardinge, the British viceroy of India, entered the new capital on the back of an elephant. The bomb was meant to kill him, but instead it ...