What distinguishes this coffee-table book on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are its stunning photographs. However, ...

In 'India Before the Ambanis', historian Lakshmi Subramanian lays out the context in which Indian business influenced history ...

Celebrating 150 years of Central Travancore Planters Association, rooted in British-era history, with a commemorative event ...

A fatwa or death sentence was issued against author Salman Rushdie by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on ...

On 11 May 1944, just four weeks before D-Day, 67 American heavy bombers dropped 168 tons of bombs on the sunlit French town ...

For some, the new spotlight on Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, who wrote one of the foundational texts of Hindutva politics, is an ...

Amrita Shah’s book, The Other Mohan in Britain’s Indian Ocean Empire, is a deeply researched historical work on the Indian diaspora in Britain’s Indian Ocean world. Shah’s book focuses on South Africa ...

Most of us have read about India's history in books, school textbooks ... Adding to the list, an internet user shared a picture of a British Indian passport, which is almost 95 years old and ...

Lakshmi Subramanian’s book, India before the Ambanis — A History of Indian Business Money ... Clearly the advent of British colonialism and the Industrial Revolution brought India’s ...

Savarkar critiqued the tendency to elevate the cow to a divine status, urging that it should be seen, not as a sacred entity, ...

Sometimes, those who claim to be part of the deep state ascribe to themselves a larger-than-life role in state affairs—for ...