The Shadows and the Light The British rule was an era of profound loss for India, yet it was also a time of profound ...

"The case went beyond the usual murder mystery as it involved a rich and young tycoon, a slighted king, and a beautiful woman ...

The East India Company was started by merchants close merchantA person involved in buying and selling items, usually between different countries. In the British Empire, this was done using a lot ...

I overcame the thought it was inauspicious to write about a death as Nan’s first column for the New Year. But it is a tribute ...

It also narrates in great detail how the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army (HSRA) used the trial for revolutionary propaganda, laying bare the farcical nature and colonial intentions of the British ...

An ordinary murder took an extraordinary turn one hundred years ago on this day - 12 January 1925 - when a group of men ambushed a couple on a car ride in an upscale suburb of Bombay (now Mumbai) in ...

"Imagine a land where the sun once set on a gilded empire and rose on the flag of a foreign crown. This is the story of India ...

in colonial India, shooting the man dead and slashing the woman's face. But the story that unfolded brought global spotlight on the case, while its complexity put the country's then British rulers ...

Indonesia, comprising thousands of islands, is the largest country in Southeast Asia, both in terms of land area, population ...

The Indian Army fought alongside British troops in several conflicts ... It was then more difficult for a country to fight against colonisation. The colonies were generally run by British ...