Malaria was a major killer in British India, claiming millions of lives. Colonial infrastructure aided its spread and British ...

Photographer Anirban Mitra’s latest publication focuses on the British mansions in Bengal that served as seats of colonial ...

Alastair McClure, a legal historian of modern South Asia and the British Empire at the University of Hong Kong examines mercy ...

India’s constitution declares it to be a secular state, though it also carries a strong Hindu influence, which the ruling BJP ...

Filmmakers are revisiting India's colonial past to bring our forgotten stories and heroes to life for future generations ...

Historian M.G.S. Narayanan debunked the myth of Vasco da Gama's landing in Kappad, Kozhikode, and left a lasting legacy.

For the Buddhists who deposited these relics — as for Buddhists today — the gems, bone and ash all belong to the Buddha and ...

The history department at the University of Connecticut welcomed Tithi Bhattacharya to the Homer Babbidge Library, to give a ...

At the age of 76, with the 2021 Literature Nobel under his belt (he's the first writer of African origin to win the prize since Toni Morrison in 1993).

Kavitha Rao revives the forgotten legacy of two extraordinary freedom fighters, M.N. Roy and Virendranath Chattopadhyay, in ...