“THE THINGS the British did in India are simply not taught in the syllabus and this is a problem,” said William Dalrymple at the Jaipur Literary Festival in September 2020. “When the British go out ...

A new study from the World Inequality Lab finds that the present-day golden era of Indian billionaires has produced soaring income inequality in India—now among the highest in the world and starker ...

Navtej K Purewal receives funding from the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Eleanor Newbigin receives funding from the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Anniversaries ...

With the end of British colonial rule in 1947, the Indian subcontinent was divided into two nations, majority-Hindu India and majority-Muslim Pakistan. But simmering secular tensions and a hastily ...

When the British ruled India, the subcontinent wasn’t just a land of exotic spices, palaces, and bustling bazaars, it was also a place to recover from the tropical heat, monsoon maladies, and general ...