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 ...

Colonialism is closely related to imperialism. Imperialism is the policy or ethos of using power and influence to control another nation or people.

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 ...

During colonial rule, the British administration tried to control or even halt many Indian festivals, considering them disruptive or superstitious. However, the Jagannath Rath Yatra in Puri proved too ...

It was at the turn of the 20th century that an alternative path of the freedom struggle, the revolutionary movement, arose and challenged the hubris of imperialism. Bengal and Punjab, geographically ...

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 ...

Even if there were no more in the record of British imperialism than laying the keel of the great American ship of state and fostering in Canada, Australia and New Zealand young modern expanding ...

Liberal imperialism existed; but so did illiberal imperialism. No argument against monument-toppling should hinge on proving that their subjects belonged to the former camp.