The early period of French presence in India offers insights into the nature of imperialism and the strategies that strengthened colonialism.

Indian politics has a strange hobby. Some leaders become statues with pigeon problems. Some become boring exam answers. And ...

Despite living in a world that endlessly celebrates progress on gender equality, millions of women remain legally bound to male authority in ways that are direct, codified, and enforced. These aren’t ...

Leslee Lewis reacts to Dhurandhar’s viral Ramba Ho revival, saying audiences “want that” nostalgic 90s melody and emotional ...

A new exhibition - called Typecasting: Photographing the Peoples of India, 1855-1920, and organised by DAG, the Delhi-based ...

Mateo Kries on the importance of Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi; Doshi Retreat at the Vitra Design Museum in Germany; how global design vocabulary is responding to the rise in market power of ...

Cultural memory survives through careful storage, accurate documentation,’ said Rishabh Jain, whose family has been preserving rare books for nearly 60 years.

Mohinder Singh’s edited volume, Secret and Private Papers of the Akali Movement (1920-25), is a substantial addition to scholarship on the Gurdwara Reform Movement in colonial Punjab. The Akali ...

Historical documents tell a story of mutual collaboration between the colonial state and the Hindu elite to preserve ...