The first Viceroy of India was Lord Canning, who presided over a turning point of Indian rule. Both during the time of ...

Throughout history, empires have survived only as long as they could project their power. This power could be real or imagined, but it must be believable to its subjects. In 1942, the British Empire ...

In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, British colonial rule in India initiated a series of legal and administrative interventions that profoundly reshaped lives, identities and social ...

Rangia uprising of 1893 was a peasant revolt in Assam against British land revenue policies, highlighting resistance to colonial rule.

Birsa Munda was a young tribal leader whose spiritual awakening turned into a powerful rebellion against British rule, exploitative landlords, and cultural erasure in central India. Leading the ...

In mid-October 1952, an acolyte of Mahatma Gandhi named Potti Sriramulu invoked the tactics of his teacher and went on a hunger strike. The nation of India — at the time just five years old — was ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — It’s strangely unsettling to peer into the razor-sharp, beautifully toned photographs of 19th-century English colonial gentry, servants, and native royals in India, now on view at ...

Railway workers across India will no longer wear their traditional uniforms in a push to erase traces of Britain's colonial rule. Under Indian PM Narendra Modi's move, the traditional Bandhgala jacket ...

In the long history of colonial rule in Asia, the shadow of Denmark does not loom large. It would be fair to say that few Indians and even fewer Danes are aware that this northern European nation had ...