India

For 600 years Muslims held sway over the Indian subcontinent. Then democracy and a desultory leadership did them in.

What were Indian nationalists thinking?

Two Hindu gods discover an abandoned child while following the wind’s path.

Questioning the powerful Tata dynasty’s claims for a ‘different kind of capitalism’.

How events in British India were leveraged in the debate over slavery.

Ambitious Sikh queen Jind Kaur faced division among the Sikh Empire’s subjects and the might of the British in India.

Ahilyabai Holkar, queen of the Malwa kingdom, died on 13 August 1795.

Sweltering British imperialists relied on an army of fan bearers, whose stories are as invisible as the air they circulated.

Starvation and disease killed millions in British India during the Second World War. Why?

Was the massacre of April 1919 a symptom of British oppression, or an exceptional event?