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Joseph Stephens arrived in Bombay at the age of 19 and made his fortune as a railway contractor, using his colonial earnings to buy Huseby Estate in Sweden. His story reveals how India’s railway boom

Denmark’s Indian empire was limited in territory, population, military strength and fiscal capacity. It was nevertheless a colonial formation in its own right.

From religious diagrams of the universe to a children's classic, cultural historian Jacob Schmidt-Madsen traces the journey of Gyan Chaupar and the making of modern Snakes and Ladders.

Rosie Llewellyn-Jones’s new book reconstructs the life of the Awadh ruler who resisted the British after Wajid Ali Shah's exile

A date picked by Mountbatten, rejected by astrologers, and rescued by a midnight compromise shaped the moment India became free.

Nearly eight decades later, a bundle of family letters reveals the intimate history of undivided Bengal, and how Partition reshaped ordinary lives, relationships and memories across newly drawn borders.

Before he was entrusted with the task of drawing the India-Pakistan border, Sir Cyril Radcliffe had never visited India. In many ways, that was seen as his greatest asset.

For 15 years, Berlin was a vital centre of India’s freedom struggle in exile, bringing together revolutionaries, students, intellectuals, and anticolonial activists from across India and the world, until the rise of Nazism brought this

While the western bank of the Hooghly was dotted with Portuguese, Dutch, French and Danish colonies, the eastern bank, where Calcutta had already been established, briefly hosted the Austrians.

The world’s heritage sites are confronting a shared climate crisis. However, the burden lies not only with the government but also with the hundreds of thousands of tourists who visit these sites every year.

Long before Independence, a little-known Hindi newspaper from Bihar was questioning British rule, debating women’s education, scientific progress and economic policy.

The idea of a global framework to protect cultural and natural heritage gathered momentum in the aftermath of the Second World War, when the widespread destruction of monuments, museums, and historic cities underscored the need

From the American, French and Russian revolutions to India's freedom movement, protests across history have repeatedly drawn on inherited social ideas about gender and sexuality to communicate political outrage.

Despite decades of archaeological and scholarly research, there is no consensus on the route Odysseus took.

Delhi has long served as India's foremost arena of democratic dissent, where public protests have often shaped the country's political and legal landscape.

As the Swadeshi movement gained ground in India, nationalists looked beyond Britain for trade partners. No industry gained more from this shift than German synthetic dyes.

In her latest book, author Paramita Sen reflects on her childhood in Batanagar while examining how a Czech multinational became a quintessential Indian favourite.

From a Czech company in colonial Calcutta to a brand woven into everyday Indian life, Bata's story is about more than shoes — it is about empire, caste, labour, urban planning, and the making of

With Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey in theatres, a look at the ancient Greek epic that continues to shape literature, cinema, and ideas of homecoming.

Switzerland had no colonies, yet its companies profited from empire. The hidden history behind Voltas reveals how colonial trade, race, and the air conditioner became unexpectedly intertwined.

India is the world's oldest emerging market, with recorded securities trading dating to the early nineteenth century in pre-exchange Calcutta. The Calcutta Stock Exchange (CSE), founded in 1908 and dormant since 2013, could be revived

A Swedish company sold matchboxes bearing Gandhi and Bharat Mata to Swadeshi India. The forgotten story of WIMCO reveals how other foreign actors operated in colonial markets without directly ruling them.

When Alivardi Khan, the Nawab of Bengal, picked grandson Siraj ud-Daulah as his successor, he set in motion a chain of events that would alter India’s history.

From a modest hunting lodge built by Louis XIII to the seat of the French monarchy under Louis XIV, the Palace of Versailles has witnessed wars, revolutions, diplomatic triumphs, and national humiliations.

On June 18, 1946, Ram Manohar Lohia’s satyagraha at Margao became a landmark in the Goa liberation movement. Yet, Portuguese rule would only end in 1961.