India and Ireland, two countries and societies thousands of kilometres apart, have one thing in common – British imperialism. However, the process of colonisation and the Empire was different in ...

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.

The exhibition, on view through August 13, mingles sensations of mystery, loss, the passage of time, and creepy discomfort over the racism and injustice of British colonial rule in India, which ...

Today marks 75 years since India emerged from British rule. That freedom began with bloodshed, the partition of Colonial India into two new nations and mass migration across their shared border.

With the end of British colonial rule in 1947, the Indian subcontinent was divided into two nations, majority-Hindu India and majority-Muslim Pakistan. But simmering secular tensions and a hastily ...

Gandhi leading the famous Salt March in 1930 to protest British rule in India. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Subscribe for ads-free reading The internet certainly has a bottling effect, often creating ...

The gap between India’s rich and poor is now so wide that by some measures, the distribution of income in India was more equitable under British colonial rule than it is now, according to the ...

As the ambitions of the British in India went from commerce to colonisation in the 18th and 19th centuries, their eating habits evolved. While soldiers in camps and rural areas would continue to ...

Then pupils evaluated two historical interpretations of British rule: one highly critical, as argued by Shashi Tharoor, an Indian politician; and one sympathetic, from Lawrence James, a British ...

In 1913, a group of Indians from Punjab who were working in the timber industry in Astoria started the Ghadar movement, which became instrumental in the overthrow of British rule.