One irksome but enduring legacies of British colonial rule in the Indian subcontinent is the clerical mindset they had left people with. According to the father of Western education in the ...

The British colonial ban on Indian Textiles, and the economic supremacy. The historical context of the British colonial rule over India is marked by a complex interplay of economic interests, cultural ...

A 60-year-old wound in Kenya has finally found its recompense. Last week, the British government finalized an out-of-court settlement with thousands of Kenyans who were tortured in detention camps ...

The U.K. on Thursday finally agreed to pay compensation to thousands of victims of horrific torture during the British colonial rule in Kenya in the 1950s. Nearly 50 years after Kenya became ...

The British, so the cliché goes, are a repressed lot. Faced with an awkward subject, they avoid it, change the subject, make tea. Nowhere is this more so than with the topic of the British Empire. The ...

Fascinating previously unseen photos of Burma under British colonial rule have come to light 150 years later. The historic snaps, which date from the late 1860s and early 1870s, feature both the ...