The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as the Amritsar massacre, occurred when the British Indian army fired on civilians ...

How the bold, hopeful visions of self-determination in Britain’s eastern colonies curdled into a more militant nationalism by the end of the second world war.

It was supposed to stop with Ayodhya. But Kashi, Mathura, Sambhal and a flurry of other mandir-masjid disputes signal a new ...

The museums you visit in the UK, from contemporary art galleries to local history exhibitions - There are around 1,800 ...

is actually colonial India, where the British Empire, which in a sense was at the height of its power and its ambition, its demand on the world’s resources was at its peak in the second half of the ...

At less than 300 square miles, the former British colony is a multicultural ... Vibrant and bustling, the centrally located Little India district is a wonderful mix of food, culture and tradition.

The state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) was established under the Treaty of Amritsar between the East India Company and Raja ... a week-long mourning period. British forces were deployed to restore ...

After the British left India in 1947, the newly independent nation ... In 2023, Stalin criticised the Modi government for replacing some colonial-era laws with ones bearing Hindi names (the ...

The French, Spanish, and Portuguese competed with the British for colonies under the belief that no great nation could exist and be self-sufficient without colonial resources. Because of this ...

Warjri highlights how British administrators misinterpreted Khasi traditions, particularly women’s role as custodians of ancestral property. He explains that in the pre-colonial era, Khasi women ...

Britain, which, as the colonial master ... travelled to Pakistan on his newly obtained British passport. PM Yahya Khan received him warmly and promised him support for a Sikh nation. Interestingly, in ...

To the East India Company and the British ... The map has just about every empire represented: the Carnatic, with its Nawab, is a huge presence, and huddled against the coast are the colonial ...