Kirsch suggests that as the theory of settler colonialism developed, what began as a tool to distinguish between forms of ...

When she took the throne in 1952, more than a quarter of the world's population was under British imperial power. That was more than 700 million people — including in parts of Africa, Asia, the ...

Beyond official condolences praising the queen’s longevity and service, there is some bitterness about the past in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and elsewhere.

India’s government unveiled new punishments for mob lynchings and crimes against women on Friday in a proposal for the country’s biggest criminal justice overhaul since the British colonial era.

Calls for the UK to pay slavery reparations have grown louder in recent years. Soon after the Second World War, former British colonies across Asia, Africa and the Caribbean started gaining their ...

Gauri Viswanathan is Class of 1933 Professor in the Humanities and former Director of the South Asia Institute (2000-2003; 2017-2020) at Columbia University. She has published widely on education, ...

The Manchester Museum in England was founded at the pinnacle of the British Empire. Now it is embracing the city’s South Asian population and reassessing the colonial past.