A stellar cast of speakers assembled in London to debate the motion ‘The Indian sub-continent benefited more than it lost from the experience of British Colonialism.’ All the speakers were in swas A ...

British colonial rule in India lasted for approximately 190 years. The British used a “divide and rule” strategy to instigate people against each other so that they could rule the country smoothly.

In his new book, Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India, the Indian politician and writer Shashi Tharoor attempts to dismantle the ongoing argument that British imperialism was, in the long ...

On December 23, 1912, an explosion rocked Delhi just as Lord Hardinge, the British viceroy of India, entered the new capital on the back of an elephant. The bomb was meant to kill him, but instead it ...

The argument Musk responded to presents colonisation as mere migration, erasing the defining feature of empire — power. Immigration implies integration into an existing order. Colonisation is the ...

CALCUTTA, India — Entering the crumbling mansion of the Lawrence D’Souza Old Age Home in Calcutta is a visit to a vanishing world. Breakfast tea from a cup and saucer, Agatha Christie murder mysteries ...

A social media post, which seems to legitimise British rule in India, has sparked a massive stir. The X post, shared by a handle named “Freedomain,” put forth a strange argument claiming that the ...

In the final novel of Paul Scott’s “Raj Quartet,” “A Division of the Spoils” (1975), the stoic “English manner” abroad is the subject of idle wonder: “The irony is . . . that at home it’s been going ...

MUMBAI: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrived in India on Wednesday, months after London and New Delhi signed a landmark free trade agreement, capping years of intense negotiations. Starmer's ...

New Delhi: Indian heritage and tradition has been very rich. The prosperity of this place can be gauged from the fact that the British made it their colony only for the purpose of looting. They ruled ...