New Delhi: Everyone knows the story of Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal emperor of India, but few know how invaluable his ...

Here Gandhi was building on a reading of colonial power that he first articulated in Hind Swaraj in 1909. One of the most ...

The EIC, now under "new management" seeks to add India to its "Age of Reform". Scrubbing away the last vestiges of the Mughal Empire and paving the way for "British Civilization".

JOGINDER BAINS argues that the infamously cruel and calculated mass murder of Indians blocked into a public square and fired upon by the British Indian Army still faces a reckoning ...

Ashis Ray is the noted author of the definitive and incontrovertible version of Subhas Bose’s last hours in his book Laid to Rest (2018).

As Dr Ayub Qadri wrote, John English, the collector of Bareilly, was the prime mover behind the society, albeit covertly. It was one of the most active organisations, with its own printing press and ...

The Courtauld Institute & Tate are inviting applications for an AHRC doctoral studentship studying Imperial Intimacies: Portraiture and the East India Company, c.1757–1857.

Akshay Kumar takes on the role of Sir C Sankaran Nair, a fearless lawyer who challenged the British Empire after a national ...