What prompted you to write Memsahibs: British Women in Colonial India? My literary agent suggested the idea after I published an article on memsahibs’ travels within India. I had read their ...

‘Memsahibs’: How British women negotiated food and fear (and love and life) in colonial India An excerpt from ‘Memsahibs: British Women in Colonial India’ by Ipshita Nath.

Even 75 years after Independence, a curiosity about the British Raj lingers. We might find ourselves wondering about the lives of ancestors who lived under British dominance, and sometimes even the ...

Multinationals wooed Indian women to buy their products by appealing to their husbands in colonial India.

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.

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 ...

The history of colonial law in British India is a complex narrative that spans over two centuries, beginning with the establishment of the British East India Company and culminating in the ...

British colonial rule in India had been established through a series of wars fought across the subcontinent from the mid-18th century onwards.

India’s government on Friday, Aug. 11, 2023, introduced a bill in Parliament that seeks to replace a British colonial-era law dealing with sedition charges with its own version.

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.