Work of great scope and verve draws on a range of superb memoirs and testimonies, covering much more than India and Pakistan ...

Ahead of the 2026 Assembly polls, RSS-BJP are trying to gain political benefits from overstating their role in ‘opposing’ ...

In this gripping extract from historian Sam Dalrymple’s 'Shattered Lands', the last days of the Raj come alive — through ...

We think of the Raj as controlling only India and Pakistan, and its infamous breakup happening in August 1947. It’s a story ...

Sam Dalrymple’s Shattered Lands is an imperious view of the British Raj's collapse, redeemed by its forgotten stories of ...

The British aristocrat, daughter of Louis Mountbatten and Edwina Ashley, may appear to have always lived in the shadow of her ...

The Codex Mendoza, preserved today in the Bodleian Library in Oxford, England, was commissioned by Antonio de Mendoza, first viceroy of New Spain, after the conquest.

By the Grace of G-d 5 Teves 5745 Brooklyn, N.Y. Blessing and Greeting: Your letter of the 19th of Kislev, with enclosures, reached me just now. Needless to say, to make an evaluation of a situation ...

When Edwina invited Aruna Asaf Ali into Viceroy’s House, the legendary hero of the Quit India movement came out dejected. ‘It’s a transfer of power,’ she spat. ‘Not a revolutionary transformation at ...

A visibly upset Vishwash Kumar Ramesh was covered in bandages as he laid his brother, Ajay Ramesh, to rest during the funeral service in Gujarat in western India on Wednesday.