Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, the 11th and last King of Awadh, was an enthusiastic patron of dance and music, but also allegedly a ...

In a bid to move away from the colonial legacy, the Indian Army has renamed Eastern Command headquarters Fort William in Kolkata as 'Vijay Durg', a Defence official said on Wednesday. In a decision ...

The new name comes from a fort in Maharashtra that was a stronghold of the Maratha Navy. It is part of a move towards ...

Fort William in Kolkata, the headquarters of the Indian Army's Eastern Command, has been renamed Vijay Durg. The fort was ...

Gate has been renamed as Shivaji Gate, Kitchener House as Manekshaw House, and Russell Block inside the fort as Bagha Jatin Block ...

With the conquest of Gujarat by Akbar in 1573 and the establishment of the formidable power of the Mughals, the small ...

The ceremonial county of Berkshire is smaller than the historic county of Berkshire; a large portion of the area was absorbed ...

However, there is one neighboring country of India that has never been ruled by any foreign power. Yes, Nepal is the only ...

In that article we dedicated to the tragic end of the Dutch Prime Minister and his brother in 1672, we explained that the ...

Ukraine has detained its army's chief psychiatrist for alleged "illegal enrichment" charges related to earnings of more than $1m (£813,000) accrued since the start of Russia's invasion in ...

The East India Company’s army in India totalled 260,000 soldiers and it was twice the size of the British peacetime army. They engaged in land dispossession, violence, and mergers and ...

The group also pointed out how the British and the Dutch used opium trade to increase the control on colonies. It also alleged that the English East India Company became "a law unto itself", ...