The first Viceroy of India was Lord Canning, who presided over a turning point of Indian rule. Both during the time of ...

Schoolchildren in the Israeli port city of Haifa have been taught a distorted story about their city’s history: During World ...

It is hard to accept that India would have remained stagnant but for the colonial rule. Actually, we may have modernised ...

Throughout history, empires have survived only as long as they could project their power. This power could be real or imagined, but it must be believable to its subjects. In 1942, the British Empire ...

India’s Republic Day, observed on January 26, marks the day the Constitution came into force in 1950, transforming the ...

Before British conquest, Assam was ruled for centuries by the Ahom kingdom. The Ahoms governed through a system that ...

The bandhgala jacket will no longer be part of the formal uniform for Indian Railways staff, following claims it symbolises a ‘colonial mindset’ ...

India celebrates Independence Day and Republic Day every year, but both mark very different milestones in the nation’s ...

It must be said clearly that South Indians are not anti-national and North Indians are not backward. These caricatures exist ...

The spectacle of Nicolás Maduro’s capture has drawn attention away from the quieter imposition of systems and power networks ...

Noted Historian and Pulitzer Awardee Harvard University Professor Caroline Elkins has expressed concern over still prevalent influence of colonial emergency laws on the governance in the present ...

In the early hours of July 30, 2024, a landslide in the Wayanad district of Kerala state, India, killed 400 people. The ...