We've been here before, another small British garrison is under siege but this is where our story comes to a head. The EIC, now under "new management" seeks to add India to its "Age of Reform".

New Delhi’s quest for great status lies in building a blue water navy, but it has been loathe to pursue this path Read Full ...

A new layer was added to this commercial link with the conquest of India by the British who then started using Bombay as a naval base to influence the geopolitics of the region. In the Gulf ...

Explore the rise and expansion of the Maratha Empire, founded by Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, and test your knowledge with ...

Though the British vilified Asaf-ud-Daula ... exploited the independent kingdoms of India with the EIC engaging in “aggressive overseas conquest and empire-building” to “blockade French ...

The tension between past empires and modern nationalism remains a challenge, but as the world evolves, this challenge can be ...

In India, where sex remains a taboo subject, the Kamastura has often been reduced to merely a “dirty book”. But beneath this ...

In his book ‘Discovery of India’, Nehru called Aurangzeb ‘a bigot and an austere puritan… He infuriated the great majority of ...

There are many variants of this fable in Greek, Latin, Persian, and Buddhist traditions. This fable sums up the notion that ...

This history has been shaped by colonial conquest ... largely under Dutch and British rule, with a brief period of French control in 1782. The Dutch West India Company that initially governed ...

Author Manu S Pillai dives deep into primary and secondary sources to show the trajectory modern Hindu identity formation followed.