Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, the 11th and last King of Awadh, was an enthusiastic patron of dance and music, but also allegedly a ...

What distinguishes this coffee-table book on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are its stunning photographs. However, ...

Fort William in Kolkata, the headquarters of the Indian Army's Eastern Command, has been renamed Vijay Durg. The fort was ...

Historical records suggest a connection between the Shaktipeeth Alopi Devi temple in Prayagraj and the Scindia Maratha ...

Since 2020 our team has been investigating the links between the RA and its colonial past. Research into the Royal Academy of ...

What lay at the core of successful Indian enterprise at a time when the ascendancy of the new power, the English East India Company, and of British capital swept all competition away? How did ...

Elon Musk’s role as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, also known as DOGE, is on the surface a dramatic effort to overhaul the inefficiencies of federal bureaucracy. But beneath the ...

A British pirate looted one of the gold-laden ships of Aurangzeb with ease. Most interestingly, he remained beyond the reach ...

If you are a tourist visiting, be it alone or with family, then it is easy to be spoiled for choice when it comes to where to ...

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The pioneer Bengal hardly even knows of today, the one who first sculpted the Bengali alphabet, has been resurrected in the ...