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Founded in 1600 as a trading enterprise, the English East India company gradually transformed into a colonial power. By the late 18th Century, as it tightened its grip on India, company officials ...

India, Oct. 10 -- Think of colonial India, and the usual suspects emerge - Kolkata's mansions, Mumbai's forts, Chennai's boulevards, and Pondicherry's French Quarter. These cities were epicentres of ...

The transition was first announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his 131st Mann Ki Baat address. The Prime Minister framed the replacement as a core component of the ‘Panch-Pran’ (five ...

The 4,000-km-long border, known as the ‘Great Hedge of India’, served to prevent smuggling of salt done to avoid the heavy tax imposed on it by Britishers ...

A new exhibition - called Typecasting: Photographing the Peoples of India, 1855-1920, and organised by DAG, the Delhi-based art gallery - brings together nearly 200 rare photographs from a period when ...

The link between the rise of photography and anthropological studies in the 1850s is inextricable particularly in India. The camera became a means to explore, investigate and classify the diversity of ...

India unveiled a bust of an independence-era nationalist icon at the presidential palace on Monday, replacing a monument to ...

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 ...