India has banned its railway staff from wearing their traditional uniform as part of Narendra Modi’s sweeping campaign to ...

In a move to shed yet another colonial relic, railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Friday announced discontinuing the railway uniforms intr.

In the long history of European colonialism, some colonialists did better by their colonies than others, and the legacy is mostly one of still-enduring pain. For example, virtually no one (save Newt ...

Imagine a land where rivers hummed with trade boats, cities gleamed with artisanal splendor, and knowledge blossomed in ancient universities that welcomed the curious from around the world. This was ...

Indian visitors in Amritsar in 2011 look at a painting depicting the Jallianwala Bagh massacre Credit - Narinder Nanu—AFP via Getty Images One hundred and five years ago, in April 1919, Mani Ram, a ...

British colonialism turned India’s tigers into trophies. Between 1860 and 1950, more than 65,000 were shot for their skins. The fortunes of the Bengal tiger, one of Earth’s biggest species of big cat, ...

It is hard to accept that India would have remained stagnant but for the colonial rule. Actually, we may have modernised ...

Thomas Babington Macaulay, member of the Governor-General's council of India in 1835, famously said that all the literature of India and Arabia were not worth one single shelf of English literature.

Monopolizing Knowledge: The East India Company and Britain’s Second Scientific Revolution Jessica Ratcliff Cambridge University Press (2025) In 1790, speaking to the Asiatic Society of Bengal, its ...