In the long history of European colonialism, some colonialists did better by their colonies than others, and the legacy is mostly one of still-enduring pain. For example, virtually no one (save Newt ...

British power changed in India after the Sepoy Mutiny and the uprising that followed. The 1857 rebellion, brutally suppressed, led Queen Victoria to declare the crown’s direct rule on the subcontinent ...

Venture capitalist and Facebook board member Marc Andreessen was, unsurprisingly, disappointed that India’s telecom regulator recently thwarted Facebook’s plans to expand Free Basics, the company’s ...

Still from “Panorama of Calcutta” (1899), the earliest extant film of India (screenshot via YouTube) The British Film Institute (BFI) has digitized and uploaded a major trove of rarely seen films from ...

A recent report by Oxfam International reveals a shocking truth. During colonial rule, the UK took around $64.82 trillion from India. Most of this wealth went to the richest 10% of people. The Oxfam ...

We live in the age of the emergency state. The nature of globalization and its security challenges — whether in the form of terrorism or global pandemics — requires the state to remain constantly on ...

India's caste system is often seen as an institution deeply rooted in traditional Indian culture. This carefully researched study, however, argues that the caste system was at least partly shaped by ...