British Empire
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This ambitious history of the British Empire touches on everything from the Mahabharata to Marx
Kim A Wagner
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Politics, revelry and massacres: East India Company logs reveal what happened on trade ships
Susannah Gillard
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Did Indigenous Canadians help Indian immigrants aboard the Komagata Maru in 1914?
Ali Kazimi, The Conversation
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New soil study confirms 1943 Bengal famine was caused by Winston Churchill’s policies, not drought
Scroll Staff
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UN has called out shameful British colonialism by urging it to return Chagos Islands to Mauritius
Miriam Bak McKenna, The Conversation
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Why England should stop whitewashing its colonial past in its school history curriculum
Deana Heath, The Conversation
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Photos: When a British intelligence officer documented his 1906 trip to the Persian Gulf and Iraq
Louis Allday
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The 1915 Ghadar plan to free India from the British was a failure – but it sparked a revolution
Haroon Khalid
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Does the Commonwealth still mean anything significant to Great Britain (or to its member countries)?
Philip Murphy
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Photos: A collection shows rare maps that helped colonising countries understand India’s geography
Maria Thomas, qz.com
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‘Let no-one grudge...to pay tax’: Why did a Bengali boy sing praises of Income Tax in British India?
Lesley Shapland
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British empire’s hidden workings in India and Iran revealed in remarkable film footage
Jonathan Westaway, The Conversation
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Empire of ethics: Studying UK’s colonial past through an ethical lens legitimises a slippery slope
Arjun Appadurai
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How the prince of Surat convinced England to give him justice against the East India Company
Moin Mir
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Why India should not bother to ask Britain to apologise for Jallianwalla Bagh
Anjali Mody
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Video: The tribal leader who spooked the British empire before Subhash Chandra Bose and Bhagat Singh
Shone Satheesh
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Tipu Jayanti debate: Akbar is the hero India should really celebrate
Girish Shahane
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As the US debates Confederate statues, a powerful lesson from Delhi – let them rot
J Daniel Elam
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Civil Services Day: Is India’s steel frame really rusted?
CK Mathew
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How the British Raj in India brightened the palette of artist JMW Turner
Mridula Chari