How the Chettiar banking dynasty ruled South Asia—then collapsed. Explore their rise from moneylenders to global financiers ...

Radicals, despots and governments have all resorted to the targeted kill to achieve their aims. Does it ever work?

If Keir Starmer wants to take a stand against Israel’s programme of mass starvation in Gaza, why is he still supplying Israel ...

Last week, I highlighted the plight of the Rohingyas – stateless, forsaken, and abandoned by a world often silent in the face of atrocity. Today, I turn to another enduring tragedy: over a century ...

VJ Day will be honoured and remembered with special programming across TV, iPlayer, Radio, Sounds and the BBC Archive to mark ...

Malayan Emergency, officially "the Emergency," was a brutal British counter-insurgency campaign from 1948-1960, primarily ...

Pre-independence public awareness campaigns provide a window into life in the young colony. Read more at straitstimes.com.

This summer at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, a trio of plays interrogates topics of representation, identity ...

A British F-35B fighter jet stranded at an Indian airport for more than a month, sparking memes and cartoons on social media, took off Tuesday after being repaired by a team of U.K. engineers, an ...

I. Colonial India: hegemony through division and domination Before British colonization, the Indian subcontinent was a loosely connected network of autonomous regions under variable central authority.

Moviegoers ran for their lives from the Colonial Theatre as part of Blobfest, the annual festival commemorating an iconic film from the 50s.

A 21-year-old suspect was arrested Tuesday in connection to a shooting at White Bank Park in Colonial Heights that left one man hospitalized.