Leading Indian writer Amitav Ghosh's critically acclaimed new novel Sea of Poppies is set during a time when opium trade out of India was flourishing during British rule. The novel spans three ...

We are talking about Goa, a very beautiful state surrounded by the sea. This state was saved from the rule of the British, due to the Portuguese. They reached India in the year 1498 before the ...

British colonial rule in India lasted for approximately 190 years. The British used a "divide and rule" strategy to instigate people against each other so that they could rule the country smoothly.

Meanwhile it's thought the Santal people – also based in eastern India – would circulate branches from the sal tree and the red cosmetic powder sindur before 1857 as a call for collective action.

India’s top 1 percent holds more income today than under the British, new research shows. And the gulf is growing.

Behari Bose died in 1945 just before India gained independence from British rule in 1947 – a victory he’d worked his whole life to achieve. In India, there is now a tourism center dedicated to ...

In that last, mad, headlong rush to freedom and partition, the British emerge with little credit. Before World War II, they had no intention of devolving power so rapidly, or at all.

Article 370 was a condition of Kashmir’s accession to India in 1947, toward the end of British colonial rule.

Find out about British colonialism in India with BBC Bitesize History. For students between the ages of 11 and 14.

When the British were in India they showed no anxiety to propagate Western civilization. On the contrary, they wanted Indians to remain true to their traditions and scoffed at Westernized Indians ...