Los Angeles Times

Back Story: India’s gay sex ban was a relic of the British Empire — but it’s still in place in dozens of ex-colonies

Reporting from Mumbai, India — When India’s Supreme Court this week legalized same-sex intercourse between consenting adults, it buried, most likely forever, a 157-year-old law introduced during ...
Asia Society

Cultural Encounters: What is Colonial, What is Local?

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.
New Haven Register

Preserving Asia's last bastion of colonial era

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- There's nowhere in Asia like it any more: a cityscape studded with hundreds of grand and humble buildings from the colonial era amid multiethnic communities that have remained ...
NBC News

Across generations, South and Southeast Asians reflect on colonialism’s impact on identity

When 21-year-old Samaa Khullar found out Queen Elizabeth had died, she was in a U.S. college classroom filled with other people of color. “We had just wrapped up a conversation about white feminism,” ...
Reuters

'Good or bad, it’s Hong Kong history' says British colonial museum founder

HONG KONG, June 21 (Reuters) - Bryan Ong has made it his mission to preserve items that tell the story of Hong Kong's British colonial past even as Beijing increasingly shapes life in the city that is ...
PBS

More on 18th-Century British Trade and Colonialism in Asia

What was the British connection to an embroidered "Mughal textile" crafted in India in the early 18th century? The early 18th-century embroidered silk and linen textile a guest named Kitty brought to ...
Nature

Elementary Geography of the British Colonies

THIS volume forms one of the well-known geographical series edited by Sir Archibald Geikie. The part of it for which Dr. Dawson is responsible is that which deals with the British possessions in North ...
MassLive

Travel spot: Rangoon, Asia's last bastion of colonial era

There's nowhere in Asia like it any more: a cityscape studded with hundreds of grand and humble buildings from the colonial era amid multiethnic communities that have remained intact, vibrant and ...
Foreign Policy

To Understand Afghanistan’s Future, Reckon With the Region’s Colonial Past

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The New Yorker

Asia’s Anti-Colonialist Journey

International conferences are notoriously difficult to organize, all the more so when the aim is global revolution and the world’s empires oppose your agenda. When, starting in 1919, Vladimir Lenin ...
KTAR News

Preserving Asia’s last bastion of colonial era

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) – There’s nowhere in Asia like it any more: a cityscape studded with hundreds of grand and humble buildings from the colonial era amid multiethnic communities that have remained ...