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 ...
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 ...
Writing cultural history comes with significant challenges, and Sindhu Rajasekaran’s Forbidden Desires: How the British Stole India’s Queer Past and Queer Futur ...
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How did India rebuild its economy after colonial rule?
The video traces India’s economic journey from ancient prosperity to colonial decline and modern recovery. It explains how ...
Clubs were not a familiar feature of South Asian life before British rule. Yet the largely imported institution became deeply ...
September 16 marks the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the sovereign nation of Papua New Guinea. Celebrations are being held throughout the country. It is worth remembering that Australia was ...
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 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, ...
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