History will always present Former Indian Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar as an uncompromising political figure who will continue to inspire generations to come.

The richest one per cent of Indians now control over 40 per cent of the nation's wealth while the bottom half share just 6.4 ...

J awaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, and Donald Trump, America’s president, do not share many similarities. Nehru ...

India’s pivot from Nehru’s moral stand to Modi’s Zionist embrace reveals a story of betrayal, diplomacy, and decline. Can justice survive realpolitik?

Professor Eric Zuelow discusses the evolution of tourism, from the elite 'Grand Tour' to modern mass tourism fueled by ...

In 1791, the slave revolt in Haiti turned into a revolution. In the 1800s, a series of rebellions fought the British Raj’s colonial rule in India.

The British Raj through George Orwell’s eyes: How colonial India shaped the literary legend George Orwell's years in the British Raj ignited a firestorm of ideas that would shape the world’s most ...

Shashi Tharoor will host a series on British colonialism for RT. The show draws from his books. It will explore colonialism's ...

Countless young men and women during the British raj lived lives that were not ordinary; their deaths were no different. Unfortunately, the term, ‘ shaheed ’, martyr — a privilege used exclusively for ...

Jane Gardam, British novelist with a mordant wit, dies at 96 A two-time winner of the Whitbread literary prize, she was perhaps best known for her 2004 novel “Old Filth,” about a retired ...

This type of modern industrial democracy, which Britain has endowed with so many of its master institutions, is the dominant imperial pattern projected by the British people. It has its critics, from ...

Pennycuick, a British Indian Army engineer, achieved deification for building the Mullaperiyar Dam, which since its completion in 1895 has provided much-needed water to several parched districts ...