Uncover the motives behind Great Britain's colonization of India, from the quest for trade dominance to strategic control and resource extraction. This historical breakdown reveals how economic ...

When British traders landed on India’s shores in the 1600s, they arrived in search of spices and silk but stayed for centuries – leaving behind a legacy that would shape the nation long after their ...

Addressing the legacies of colonialism and slavery has been a prominent narrative throughout 2020. A number of calls to recognise, remove, rename, repatriate, and redress have underlined the extent to ...

Asia Society Museum in New York is throwing new light on a somewhat neglected period of art history in India — the final years of Mughal rulers in the 18th and 19th centuries. Sure, that is a long ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York suggested that Britain should return the gem, a symbol of colonial plunder. Here’s the back ...

In her new novel Loot, Tania James writes of a 17-year-old woodworker who's commissioned to build a tiger automaton for the Indian ruler Tipu Sultan in the 18th century. The story is inspired by the ...

Some colonial-era photographs did little, for instance, to conceal the paternalistic attitudes underpinning their production ...