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 ...

Nicholas Yong, who lives in Singapore, is the author of the short story anthology “Seven Sacks of Rice” and has an unhealthy fixation with food and historical sites. March 13, 2025 Once ...

At the time of accession, the total area of J&K was 2,22,236 sq km. However, over the years, significant portions of this land were occupied by Pakistan and China. The state of Jammu and Kashmir ...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has said he will not implement the education policy in his state A war of words has erupted between the chief minister of a southern Indian state and the ...

Leslie Kramer is a writer for Institutional Investor, correspondent for CNBC, journalist for Investopedia, and managing editor for Markets Group. Michael Boyle is an experienced financial ...

Shillong, For hundreds of years, Meghalaya’s Khasi community, the largest ethnic group in the northeastern state, has followed a rare matrilineal system, where lineage and inheritance pass ...

Chatham House, from where India’s foreign minister was stepping out when Khalistani extremists attacked him, stopped his car, and flashed the cult’s yellow flag, has an interesting history. In October ...

To the East India Company and the British Raj that followed it, mapping was an obsession. The empires that came before them, such as the Mughal and the Marathas, did not engage in cartography in ...