Founded in 1600 as a trading enterprise, the English East India company gradually transformed into a colonial power. By the ...

The writers, the editors, and the learned contributors write, read, and evaluate a text as a matter of volition. They are ...

A melting pot of cultures, contradictions, and creativity, Mumbai is more than just India’s financial capital; it is its ...

Punkah' is a colonial-era anglicisation of the Hindustani term pankha, which referred to handheld fans. Punkah-pullers were made to work in deliberately uncomfortable conditions.

Comparisons with Western modernism often led to the mischaracterisation of Indian art as derivative or subordinate ... with the lingering effects of colonial oppression. Most, if not all, artists ...

The Kolkata Indian Museum has a great art gallery of Mughal paintings, Bengal School paintings, and colonial relics, but it is more famous as the nation's oldest and largest museum. Anyone ...

A set of Buddhist gems that were once mixed with the cremated remains of the Buddha will not be auctioned off to the highest ...

Patna's Sewak Ram painted this watercolour of prayers at a Muharram festival, 1820 Founded in 1600 as a trading enterprise, the English East India Company gradually transformed into a colonial power.