Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. In his new book, Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India, the Indian politician and writer ...
The rise, consolidation, and fall of the British Raj is a fascinating story that inevitably raises passions throughout the Indian subcontinent and in Britain itself. What was the nature of the Raj?
Britain has spent decades asking the world to admire its empire while refusing to acknowledge its damage. That is the oldest ...
Former UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman, whose parents are of Indian origin, has stirred controversy by saying that countries once colonised by Britain should repay the United Kingdom for the ...
The politician and historian Thomas Babington Macaulay imagined, in 1840, the fall of a great empire. He conjured a future “when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, ...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - In a nondescript corner of Delhi, white marble statues and busts of British royalty and viceroys, including King George V, languish in a park filled with filth, faeces and wild ...
Kyle J. Gardner, The Frontier Complex: Geopolitics and the Making of the India-China Border, 1846-1962 (Cambridge University Press, 2021) When the first Englishman visited Leh, the capital of Ladakh ...
Indian forces in North Africa during World War II. Imperial War Museums © IWM (E 5330) During the Allied invasion of Italy in early September 1943, an Indian ...
Throughout history, Britain has reckoned with its imperial roots. The country is facing mounting pressure by other nations and activists to repatriate objects they allege were stolen by the British ...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - In a nondescript corner of Delhi, white marble statues and busts of British royalty and viceroys, including King George V, languish in a park filled with filth, feces and wild ...
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