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 ...

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.

It does not fall to many of us to be worshipped as a living god, but that was the fate of John Nicholson, a 19th century British army officer in the service of the East India Company.Nicholson ...

The first two statements may as well have been written 200 years ago, at the beginning of the 19th Century, which is when these "facts" about Indian society were being made up by the British ...

Did you know that in the early 19th century Russia was keen to wrest India from British control? It was only the assassination of Russian Emperor Paul I that stymied the plan. In February 1801 ...

In the 19th Century, a peculiar paranoia gripped the British East India Company: were the Indian people using flatbreads to transmit cryptic messages? Something perplexing began in India in 1857 ...

1751 – 1947: British India. From the 15th through the 18th centuries, ... Through the mid-19th century, British conquest proceeded via military victory and annexation, ...

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… ...

India's Rabindranath Tagore was the first nonwhite writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature. His 1892 story, "The Kabuliwala," fostered empathy for migrants and refugees. It still resonates today.