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His new book, The Emergence of Brand-Name Capitalism in Late Colonial India, provides fascinating insights into how multinationals wooed Indian women and the middle class during the 1920s and ...

Discover five historically significant forts across India named after formidable women rulers and queens. These structures ...

Photographic representations of colonised Indian women, segregated by the double burden of being colonised and of womanhood, faced further representational violence in the canons of colonial ...

A woman holds a placard protesting the abuse of sedition in Bangalore, India, on Feb. 4, 2020. India's government on Friday introduced a bill that seeks to replace the British colonial-era ...

The colonial government initially failed to include provisions for Indian women and children, believing their lives had little to no economic impact or worth to the livelihoods of families.

British colonial rule in India had been established through a series of wars fought across the subcontinent from the mid-18th century onwards. It was bloody and gradual, and rested on a thin ...

At a time when most women were kept away from higher education, R Sivabhogam carved an unlikely path; one that led her to ...

When peaceful protesters defied a government order and demonstrated against British colonial rule in Amritsar, India, on 13 April 1919, they were blocked inside the walled Jallianwala Gardens and ...

India replaced colonial-era criminal laws with new legislation on Monday, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government said would make the country more just, but the opposition said risked ...