Aurangzeb Alamgir, the sixth Mughal Emperor (r. 1658–1707), is often remembered for his controversial policies, which have ...

The Smoot-Hawley tariffs were meant to protect farmers, but grew owing to congressional “logrolling”, as representatives ...

In his book ‘Discovery of India’, Nehru called Aurangzeb ‘a bigot and an austere puritan… He infuriated the great majority of ...

The new four-part ITV drama will see actress Lucy Boynton take on the role of Ruth Ellis, who was the last woman to be hanged ...

Cricket's widespread popularity across the globe is deeply rooted in the history of British colonialism. As the British ...

For India, March 4 is a date that can never be forgotten. On this day in 1961, the Indian Navy received its first aircraft ...

"If you did not have Partition, you would have to give the Muslim-majority provinces a degree of provincial autonomy," said ...

Although Muslims constitute only 6.7 per cent of the total population of Britain, they are able to influence the electoral ...

The two Treaties of Purandar, signed over a century apart, shaped Indian history. The first, in 1665, was a setback for the ...

The economist Alice Amsden’s work unmasked the dirty secret underlying capitalist development: it relied on states breaking ...

The origins of the Iron Age have for long been traced to the Hittite Empire in Anatolia, where iron technology likely emerged ...

In truth, colonization is in practice a form of terrorism with a bigger budget, though merely acknowledging it as such is not yet social justice activism. It is simple, factual, academic history that ...