India

Laws against religious offence in India have altered the writing and understanding of the nation’s past.

An extensively researched, hard-hitting reassessment of British rule in India pulls no punches, but does not tell the whole story. 

A persuasively argued but one-sided account of the economic and political failings of British rule in India.

Attempts to control the spread of bank note forgery in India have proven ineffective and dangerous.

Long before the recent rise in Islamophobia, distrust of Hinduism was rife among Britain’s ruling class.

In the 18th century, the Muslim warlord Tipu Sultan terrorised Hindu southern India and clashed repeatedly with the British. Today, his legacy is contested, but he was far from the nationalist that some have claimed, writes Zareer Masani.

The first White Rajah of Sarawak was born on April 29th, 1803.

When India and Pakistan gained independence from Britain in 1947, the region’s Princely States – including tiny Sikkim – became pawns in South Asia’s great power politics, as Andrew Duff explains.

The civilisation that arose in the Indus valley around 5,000 years ago was only discovered in the early 20th century. Andrew Robinson looks at what we know about this extraordinary culture.

The contribution of Indian troops to one of the first major battles on the Western Front.