A new exhibition in Delhi showcases 200 rare photographs that fixed identities in colonial India.
Charlotte Despard publicly denounced British imperial rule from London in the 1920s. Her activism linked women's suffrage with India's fight for independence, challenging imperial authority and ...
On 13 February 1931, the British Empire inaugurated New Delhi as the capital of the Raj, a city of sweeping avenues, imperial ...
The rotting Old Republican Palace in Khartoum, first erected in the 1830s and rebuilt by the British in 1899 after the Battle ...
“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 ...
Long before oil transformed Dubai, the city was closely tied to British India. From Indian passports and the Indian rupee to administrators reporting to Delhi, large parts of today's Gulf were once ...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - In a nondescript corner of Delhi, white marble statues and busts of British royalty and viceroys, including King George V, languish in a park filled with filth, faeces and wild ...
It was never a question of whether but rather of one when a British of Indian extraction would lead Britain. How did that happen, and could Kenya be next? At the height of the British Empire, India ...
NMAI copy v.4 (39088014920409) from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. Provincial characteristics and sectional tendencies in the era preceding the American crisis: v. 1. Great Britain and ...