India’s Sunday holiday tradition can be traced back to a 19th-century movement led by Mumbai mill worker leader Narayan Meghaji Lokhande.

Like most fed only on Pakistani textbooks, the former minister of information Fawad Chaudhry is woefully ignorant about the ...

Braj Bhasha controversy teaches us that languages are not just means of communication—they are repositories of memory, ...

Between the early 18th and late 19th century,  the officials working with the East India Company commissioned local Indian ...

The Sepoy Uprising, which took place in India in 1857 - 58, is seen as one of the most shocking insurrections to take place ...

Contrary to popular belief, English did not enter India purely as the language of the Empire; it first arrived in the early ...

The story behind the "Old Glory" nickname for the American flag dates back to a 19th-century ship captain, who proudly ...

The Panopticon design involved a central watch tower, from which a single prison officer could observe the goings-on in the ...

Hundreds taken to Bangladesh border at gunpoint in a crackdown by Assam, as some other BJP-ruled states follow suit.

But the British elite came to view Russia as the great threat to the British Empire, the threat to India, the crown jewel of the empire. So much so that by 1840, Britain was rapidly Russophobic.

In 19th-century Paris, the Paris Morgue became a popular attraction, drawing crowds eager to view unclaimed bodies. This fascination with death, a precursor to modern true crime entertainment ...