Sultana Begum, the great-granddaughter-in-law of the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, lives in a Kolkata slum in stark ...

Married into the royal family that ruled India for three centuries, Sultana Begum lives in penury in a cramped two-room hut ...

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

We begin with the immediate concerns of the Huseypur Raja and the circumstances that shaped the nature of his opposition to ...

The Bank of Hindostan, General Bank of Bengal and Bengal Bank became the first banks in India to issue paper currency in the ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Elon Musk’s role as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, also known as DOGE, is on the surface a dramatic effort to overhaul the inefficiencies of federal ...

Cricket's widespread popularity across the globe is deeply rooted in the history of British colonialism. As the British ...

Here Gandhi was building on a reading of colonial power that he first articulated in Hind Swaraj in 1909. One of the most ...

At Leeds Art Gallery, the artist obliquely references his own diasporic family history whilst resisting the exploitation of ...

The two Treaties of Purandar, signed over a century apart, shaped Indian history. The first, in 1665, was a setback for the Marathas against the Mughals but did not halt their rise. The second, in ...

British traders preceded soldiers in India, too, as the British East India Company established ... Roosevelt was determined to ensure that the war’s end also heralded the end of the British Empire.