Gandhi leading the famous Salt March in 1930 to protest British rule in India. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Subscribe for ads-free reading The internet certainly has a bottling effect, often creating ...

Lavishly illustrated postcard-sized paper labels pasted on mill-manufactured cloth reflected and even subverted ideas of ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — It’s strangely unsettling to peer into the razor-sharp, beautifully toned photographs of 19th-century English colonial gentry, servants, and native royals in India, now on view at ...

Birsa Munda was a young tribal leader whose spiritual awakening turned into a powerful rebellion against British rule, ...

The end of British colonial rule birthed two sovereign nations—but hastily drawn borders caused simmering tensions to boil over. 75 years later, memories of Partition still haunt survivors. People ...

What was the British connection to an embroidered "Mughal textile" crafted in India in the early 18th century? The early 18th-century embroidered silk and linen textile a guest named Kitty brought to ...

British colonials with a pet cheetah in Secunderabad, India, 1906. (Hulton Archive / Getty Images) In 2005, Britain’s then–Labour chancellor of the exchequer, Gordon Brown, chose the backdrop of ...