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.

Social clubs unite individuals with shared interests, fostering community and cooperation, exemplified by the Mutton Club in British India for mutton supply.

India, Feb. 19 -- History often surprises us with impossible parallels. In today's turbulent geopolitical landscape, two seemingly unrelated figures - US President Donald J Trump and India's Leader of ...

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 ...

The Eastern Indian Railway (EIR), founded on June 1, 1845, marked a significant engineering achievement in India's colonial era. Despite bureaucratic delays and logistical challenges, the railway was ...

Revise key topics of History and Culture of India with today’s UPSC Essentials quiz. Don’t miss the explanations.

In the mid-twentieth century, a set of South Asian countries collectively experienced a catharsis from colonizers' rule. The period that followed sparked an era of ideas and philosophies for a new ...