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 ...

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 ...

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

Aurangzeb Alamgir, the sixth Mughal Emperor (r. 1658–1707), is often remembered for his controversial policies, which have ...

Soon, soon, to faithful warriors comes the rest” by Zingari Was it not sacriIege when for the first time in the history 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.

Sultana Begum was married to Mirza Mohammad Bedar Bakht, purported to be the great-grandson of India’s last Mughal ruler. At ...