The island bears eerie reminders of its tumultous history, scarred by brutal prison conditions and a natural disaster.

Shah Jahan's Delhi, Shahjahanabad, featured several significant gates, each with a unique history. The Kashmiri Gate, named ...

These events increased the feeling that the British were not respecting Indian values. Image caption, Indian sepoys around the time of the rebellion in 1857 In March 1857 a sepoy named Mangal ...

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

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

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 ...

Sultana Begum was married to Mirza Mohammad Bedar Bakht, purported to be the great-grandson of India’s last Mughal ruler. At the time of marriage in 1965, Sultana Begum was 14 years old and her ...

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