“THE THINGS the British did in India are simply not taught in the syllabus and this is a problem,” said William Dalrymple at the Jaipur Literary Festival in September 2020. “When the British go out ...

For those of us who are familiar with the history of the British empire as well as post-Partition events, Shashi Tharoor’s book An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India may seem like a rather ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Battle of Plassey is the battle that started the British Empire in India. India’s history is characterized by a long list of battles as native and foreign powers ...

On 13 February 1931, the British Empire inaugurated New Delhi as the capital of the Raj, a city of sweeping avenues, imperial ...

On August 9, Dr. Zareer Masani passed away. An eminent historian, he dedicated much of his later life to providing a holistic view of the British Empire in India, countering many of the post-colonial ...

India was still a British colony when Queen Elizabeth II was born in 1926, but it had been independent for nearly five years by the time she became Britain’s monarch in February 1952. Britain at that ...

New Delhi: India’s fourth President VV Giri spent three years in Ireland between 1913 and 1916—the revolutionary years in the European country. The stay would go on to have a huge impact on his own ...

Long before oil transformed Dubai, the city was closely tied to British India. From Indian passports and the Indian rupee to administrators reporting to Delhi, large parts of today's Gulf were once ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - In a nondescript corner of Delhi, white marble statues and busts of British royalty and viceroys, including King George V, languish in a park filled with filth, faeces and wild ...

British colonials with a pet cheetah in Secunderabad, India, 1906. (Hulton Archive / Getty Images) In 2005, Britain’s then–Labour chancellor of the exchequer, Gordon Brown, chose the backdrop of ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - In a nondescript corner of Delhi, white marble statues and busts of British royalty and viceroys, including King George V, languish in a park filled with filth, feces and wild ...