India has banned its railway staff from wearing their traditional uniform as part of Narendra Modi’s sweeping campaign to ...

The bandhgala jacket will no longer be part of the formal uniform for Indian Railways staff, following claims it symbolises a ‘colonial mindset’ ...

A new study led by a University of Nottingham historian offers a comprehensive examination of apprenticeship in artisanal production during the second half of British colonial rule in India, revealing ...

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 ...

A type of large, manually operated ceiling-fan used historically in the Indian subcontinent, the punkah comprised a suspended wooden beam, slab or frame with a hanging panel of fabric that was swung ...