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 ...

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 ...

Long before independence, our leaders engaged intensely with constitutional thought—experimenting, rejecting, and refining ...

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 ...

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 ...

MUMBAI, India — Indians are calling it a Diwali gift. On the Hindu festival of lights, Rishi Sunak — who is of Indian descent and a practicing Hindu — has become Britain's next prime minister. Sunak's ...

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

New Delhi (CNN) — 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 ...