Colonialism is closely related to imperialism. Imperialism is the policy or ethos of using power and influence to control ...

Throughout history, empires have survived only as long as they could project their power. This power could be real or imagined, but it must be believable to its subjects. In 1942, the British Empire ...

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In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, British colonial rule in India initiated a series of legal and administrative interventions that profoundly reshaped lives, identities and social ...

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 ...

In mid-October 1952, an acolyte of Mahatma Gandhi named Potti Sriramulu invoked the tactics of his teacher and went on a hunger strike. The nation of India — at the time just five years old — was ...

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 ...

India celebrates Independence Day and Republic Day every year, but both mark very different milestones in the nation's ...

India's Republic Day, celebrated on January 26, commemorates the adoption of its constitution in 1950, marking the complete transition from British colonial rule to Indian sovereignty. Let's deep dive ...

It is hard to accept that India would have remained stagnant but for the colonial rule. Actually, we may have modernised ...

In the long history of colonial rule in Asia, the shadow of Denmark does not loom large. It would be fair to say that few Indians and even fewer Danes are aware that this northern European nation had ...