Discover 2025’s best books on class, identity, and global politics. From Saraswati’s mythical quest to Bandung’s legacy, ...

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

Posey served in various military roles throughout the Revolution. The Indiana Historical Society has his original enlistment ...

You don’t need to travel 20,000 leagues under the sea to hop aboard Nautilus, the series based on Jules Verne’s defining 1870 ...

Transfer of reign The status of Calcutta under the British rule prevails in phases considering the great impact of change in political and commercial importance that the city won from its rulers. From ...

Raj era paintings: Between the first war of Independence in 1857 and Indian Independence in 1947, European, American and Japanese painters who visited India went beyond the bigger cities. An ...

O ne hundred and five years ago, in April 1919, Mani Ram, a middle-aged dental surgeon, frantically ran to one of his son's favorite play areas. His son, Madan Mohan, enjoyed playing at ...

In 1757 the East India Company, a British corporation with an army, defeated the Nawab of Bengal and took over the province in India’s east. Over the next 100 years it expanded its control of ...

In their hundred-year rule over India, the British had violated all that Indians held dear and sacred. The revolt was a violent but understandable response to a century of subjugation, humiliation ...

Independence Day 1857: The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf ...