The forgotten story of World War II: the Bengal famine in British India, where at least three million people died, told for the first time by the eyewitnesses to it. The Bengal Famine of 1943 in ...

It was funded by India as a deterrent to potential conflict among its 550 princely states. Similarly, the British state subsidized Indian naval capability. Until World War I, army deployment ...

India produces more food than the US. But there was a time when India requested food aid from the US and faced arm-twisting ...

Major Dudley John Gardiner was a giant of a man and a dedicated and much-loved quartermaster for the poor and needy in India.

John Cartier, Governor of Bengal, died on this day. Cartier was first employed as a writer for the British East India Company ...

The British government ruled over India from 1858 until 1947 during a period known as The British Raj. British rule led to extreme poverty and famine for many Indians while the British government ...

Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' concept applies to Trump's Gaza plan, highlighting the dangers of bureaucratic compliance.

The UK extracted USD 64.82 trillion from India over a century of colonialism between 1765 and 1900 and USD 33.8 trillion of this went to the richest 10 per cent -- enough money to carpet London in ...

Why would Oxfam, a once-respected charity, publish a careless and ill thought-out piece of propaganda such as its latest pamphlet, Takers not Makers: The Unjust Poverty and Unearned Wealth of ...

In 'Framing Portraits, Binding Albums', edited by Shilpi Goswami and Suryanandini Narain, dwells on the importance of family ...