Kadambini Ganguly defied 19th-century norms to become a doctor — saving lives till just 15 minutes before her death.

In the first half of the 19th century, when the East India Company still ruled India on Britain's behalf, there was a heady rhetoric of reform and improvement in some British circles.

The 19th-century power struggle between the Sikhs, the British, and the Afghans shaped the political landscape of the time.

Britain had as much in common with Germany politically in the 19th century as it did with the United States. British efforts to cooperate with America predate Britain’s own move towards ...

Through the mid-19th century, British conquest proceeded via military victory and annexation, subjecting Muslim and Hindu interest alike. The Mughal emperor accepted British protection (becoming a ...

The English author, best known for The Jungle Book, had a lifelong fascination with India, which is now being traced on a ...

Today's thugs can trace their literary ancestry to the highway robbers who formed the Thuggee Cult of India. The thuggees were hunted down, imprisoned or killed in the 19th century during British ...

Sea of Poppies By Amitav Ghosh Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 515 pages, $26. Any reader would be forgiven, upon finishing the Indian writer Amitav Ghosh’s new novel “Sea of Poppies,&#82… ...

Although sympathetic, India Office officials struggled to know how to help, as one noted, “Distressing as her case may prove to be, there is no precedent of a European being sent to India at the ...

The British first began wearing khaki during their occupation of India. The tan-colored tactical camouflage soon spread across the world. Originally the uniform of 19th century British soldiers in ...