Kanwar Yatra involves walking to a holy river to bring back sacred water to ritualistically bathe either personal idol of Shiva or one at highly revered temple ...

Following the Battle of Buxar, Awadh's rulers became British puppets, with Residents wielding immense control. They annually re-crowned kings, dictated policies, and even interfered with daily ...

Shimla is not just mountains and old buildings the city hides streets with strange names and each name has a story from ...

On March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd of Boston colonists near the Custom House on King Street. Five ...

According to the American academic William Kelleher Storey, Rhodes was able to go a long way towards realising his vision ...

However, a rare copy is believed to exist in a private collection in London. Some claim it contains deeply disturbing revelations for the British, which is why it remains sealed to this day. In ...

It's now largely forgotten that in the early 1900s, nearly a third of the Arabian Peninsula was under British India.

A retired top British civil servant has revealed he was beside two prime ministers when they cheated death in IRA bombings. Lord Robin Butler was beside Margaret Thatcher when the IRA’s Brighton ...

Also known as the Great Famine of 1876–1878, the Madras Famine devastated British India, killing an estimated 8 million people in just two years.

Lord Moyne's first-hand acquaintance with the problems of backward peoples is not, however, limited to his official relations with them.

The Attorney General has described “almost every element” of the British Empire as racist and revealed he fought to get reparations. Lord Hermer, speaking on a podcast for his former chambers ...