Princess Gouramma of Coorg became Queen Victoria's goddaughter. This symbolized British imperial triumph. The Coorg War led ...

The upcoming period-drama 'The Revolutionaries' revealed its first look on Monday. The cast includes Bhuvam Bam, Rohit Saraf, ...

Nongthliew , A life-size statue of U Tirot Sing Syiem, one of Meghalaya's earliest and legendary freedom fighters, was unveiled here on the occasion of his 190th death anniversary on Thursday. The ...

Indeed, the U.S. is a British imperial creation. One of the greatest lies America tells about itself is that it was a victim of Britain’s imperial oppression and that it stands in opposition to ...

Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire, by Caroline Elkins, Knopf, 896 pages, $37.50. Histories of imperialism, especially the European imperialism of the 19th and 20th centuries ...

But 1921 was likely the first and only large-scale compensation for Indian families under British imperial control. British officials were adamant that the payments did not set a precedent and ...

The British monarch is the head of state not only in the U.K. but also in 14 other former colonies, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Jamaica and a number of smaller island nations. When she ...

And I think the British public has been quite shocked by the details, and it’s quite strange that this is all coming out hundreds of years later. But it’s just one of those things.

But in “Imperial Island: An Alternative History of the British Empire,” Charlotte Lydia Riley does not conform to any of these expectations.Instead, her account begins where most standard ...