Radharani was not yet 11. She was well-born but now reduced to penury. Her father was dead, their vast wealth was lost and her mother too was ailing. Little Radharani made a garland of wildflowers and ...

Is there a case for reparations? Oxfam’s huge estimate of the money drained from India by Britain’s colonial rule does not ...

Historian Fazlul Hasan notes that in mid-1800s, a water bearer would draw from tanks and deliver it in leather bags in ...