UK looted $65 trillion from India during its colonial rule: Oxfam report

Former colonies of the British Empire seek a combined reparation claims totalling a staggering $180 trillion ...
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Can the British Museum lend its way out of criticisms over its colonial holdings?

No, the museum isn't ceding Indian treasures to India, but it will lend some Roman and Egyptian artifacts to a Mumbai museum.

Ivory Buddha, colonial officer’s waist belt buckle among Indian artefacts stolen from British museum

"The theft of many items which carry a significant cultural value is a significant loss for the city," said Avon and Somerset ...
insider.si.edu

The British Empire before the American Revolution

NMAI copy v.4 (39088014920409) from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. Provincial characteristics and sectional tendencies in the era preceding the American crisis: v. 1. Great Britain and ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

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, IndiaReporting 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 ...
The New Yorker

The British Empire Was Much Worse Than You Realize

At the height of the British Empire, just after the First World War, an island smaller than Kansas controlled roughly a quarter of the world’s population and landmass. To the architects of this ...
PBS

‘I cannot mourn’: Former colonies conflicted over Queen Elizabeth II’s death

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Upon taking the throne in 1952, Queen Elizabeth II inherited millions of subjects around the world, many of them unwilling. Today, in the British Empire’s former colonies, her ...
The Grio

Yes, it’s the Queen’s Jubilee, but the Black people in former British colonies are not feeling it

LONDON (AP) — After seven decades on the throne, Queen Elizabeth II is widely viewed in the U.K. as a rock in turbulent times. But in Britain’s former colonies, many see her as an anchor to an ...
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 ...