What Macaulay envisioned was very extensive; we gained Independence but did not free ourselves from a sense of inferiority, ...

While the Modi tribe is blaming Macaulay for our ills, the Dalit thinkers like Chandrabhan Prasad are hailing the contribution of Macaulay in laying the foundations which in due course led to the ...

In all the history courses that I ever took, I was taught that the British Empire colonized India. Yet, as William Dalrymple’s eminently readable new book, “The Anarchy: The East India Company, ...

The argument Musk responded to presents colonisation as mere migration, erasing the defining feature of empire — power. Immigration implies integration into an existing order. Colonisation is the ...

Late last month, the leader of Myanmar’s junta, Min Aung Hlaing, stood on a huge parade field to recount the military’s “immense prestige etched in the annals of history.” Hundreds of soldiers who had ...

Move over Harshad Mehta, Ketan Parekh, and Abdul Telgi. For sheer white-collar crime, no one in Indian history can compare to Robert Clive, who made looting a fine art and whose spoils would leave ...

"At its peak, the Mughal Empire stretched from Kabul in the northwest and covered most of the South Asian subcontinent. Descendants of Timur (Tamerlane), the Mughal emperors ruled over the land from ...