One irksome but enduring legacies of British colonial rule in the Indian subcontinent is the clerical mindset they had left people with. According to the father of Western education in the ...
Clubs were not a familiar feature of South Asian life before British rule. Yet the largely imported institution became deeply ...
The video traces India’s economic journey from ancient prosperity to colonial decline and modern recovery. It explains how ...
On December 23, 1912, an explosion rocked Delhi just as Lord Hardinge, the British viceroy of India, entered the new capital on the back of an elephant. The bomb was meant to kill him, but instead it ...
When Britain's Queen Elizabeth II first visited India in 1961, huge crowds lined up to catch a glimpse of her as her royal carriage moved through the streets of New Delhi. News reports spoke about ...
IRELAND AND the world is commemorating the 100th anniversary of the great 1916 Rising. On the morning of Easter Monday 1916, April 24, some 1,300 members of the Irish Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army ...
The argument Musk responded to presents colonisation as mere migration, erasing the defining feature of empire — power. Immigration implies integration into an existing order. Colonisation is the ...
The impact of colonial rule on sub-Saharan Africa continues to be the subject of intense debate and controversy. Barely a year goes by in the UK without a public figure igniting a furore by arguing ...
Barely a year goes by in the UK without a public figure igniting a furore by arguing that colonialism somehow benefitted the people it oppressed. But our new book, “Authoritarian Africa: Repression, ...