Starting from their core in the Kaveri delta, their empire at its peak covered a large chunk of peninsular India, both its coasts and also expanded into the Deccan. Their campaigns extended much ...

The Young Bengal was a group of Bengali free thinkers from Hindu College, Calcutta. They were also known as Derozians, after ...

Portuguese colchas, enslaved artisans in Mexico, and Aurangzeb’s ‘invisible’ muslins reveal a global saga. This Kolkata exhibition is ‘a bridge between a coffee-table book and a lost history'.

The Nawab was the leader of Bengal, which in the early 1700s was a part of the Mughal Empire. While the Nawab of Bengal was typically loyal to the Mughal emperor, he was effectively able to rule ...

It may have been light as air but in its heyday, the Bengal Muslin was a heavyweight whose popularity extended to Europe. Two garments from the Weavers Studio Resource Centre (WSRC) in Kolkata ...

For the first time since 2017, the Lewiston Bengals are State-bound in boys basketball. “It hasn’t happened in so long,” Lewiston junior guard Dray Torpey said. “So no one expects Lewiston to make it ...

While renaming colonial landmarks is not new, critics argue that the choice of a Maratha name for a British-built fort in Bengal lacks historical context ...