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British rule

  • How a sadistic British imperial officer came to be worshipped as a living god in India

    How a sadistic British imperial officer came to be worshipped as a living god in India

    Sean Lang, The Conversation
    · Jul 22, 2018 · 08:30 pm
  • When a British officer wrote to London requesting financial aid for poor Indian women in Syria

    When a British officer wrote to London requesting financial aid for poor Indian women in Syria

    Louis Allday
    · Jun 12, 2018 · 01:30 pm
  • Did Hindu-Muslim conflicts in India really start with British rule?

    Did Hindu-Muslim conflicts in India really start with British rule?

    Ajay Verghese
    · Jun 05, 2018 · 01:30 pm
  • How to transport swords and scabbards from England to India, according to an 18th-century letter

    How to transport swords and scabbards from England to India, according to an 18th-century letter

    Karen Stapley
    · May 26, 2018 · 09:30 pm
  • What a 160-year-old skull found in small-town England can tell us about the 1857 revolt in India

    What a 160-year-old skull found in small-town England can tell us about the 1857 revolt in India

    Kim A Wagner
    · Feb 09, 2018 · 08:30 am
  • London’s mayor asks British government to issue a formal apology for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre

    London’s mayor asks British government to issue a formal apology for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre

    Scroll Staff
    · Dec 06, 2017 · 08:16 pm
  • Narendra Modi wants the nation to revive the Quit India spirit. But will his own party pay heed?

    Narendra Modi wants the nation to revive the Quit India spirit. But will his own party pay heed?

    Sudheendra Kulkarni
    · Aug 09, 2017 · 10:30 am
  • Pakistan past and present: Crumbling Hindu buildings in Lahore’s oldest market trace the transition

    Pakistan past and present: Crumbling Hindu buildings in Lahore’s oldest market trace the transition

    Haroon Khalid
    · Jul 28, 2017 · 06:30 pm
  • History revisited: 'Bande Mataram' was written as a song about Bengal – not India

    History revisited: 'Bande Mataram' was written as a song about Bengal – not India

    Garga Chatterjee
    · Mar 31, 2017 · 05:30 pm
  • Made by the British and approved by Jahangir: A 17th-century map of India

    Made by the British and approved by Jahangir: A 17th-century map of India

    Ursula Sims-Williams
    · Jan 04, 2016 · 08:30 pm