The birds scattered in every direction as the first drumbeat thundered across the plaza outside Paris’s Centre Pompidou, ...

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 ...

In 1857, Indian soldiers mutinied—prompting the British government to dissolve the company and take over India. The newly established British Raj appointed officials—many of whom had never set ...

"Where Krishna moves, crowds follow. And where crowds gather, revolutions are born." The Rath Yatra — the majestic chariot ...

In the 1930s, the British Raj summered in Quetta. While day temperatures could reach the blistering highs of the plains, nights in Quetta were far cooler than what the lowlands of the Indian ...

The British Raj. Language can be the ultimate colonial weapon. Despite these heavy themes, Babel remains inherently readable. It is quick to attract the reader’s attention and then hold it ...

Over roughly 200 years, the East India Company and the British Raj siphoned out at least £9.2 trillion (or $44.6 trillion; since the exchange rate was $4.8 per pound sterling during much of the ...

The penal colony, designed by the British to break people, would form one of the darkest chapters in India’s struggle for freedom. Robyn Wilson meets prisoner Sushil Dasgupta's son, who ...

Approximately 15,000 activists and many other citizens rallied against the British Raj’s oppressive Salt Act of 1882, which prohibited Indians from collecting or selling salt.

The British called the areas around the Indus ‘wastelands’ and the canals were meant to make them productive. But these were the grazing grounds of camels who needed wild plants around the rivers.