British Rule In India

Interview | In Heroes the Colour of Dust, Amit Majmudar weaves fictional plot around India's civil disobedience

Read his book to learn about a fictional group of fearless sparrows who are ready to sacrifice their own lives because they have made a resolution “to protect Gandhi from any foebird, mutt, or Britisher.”

Mahatma Gandhi's Salt March: Here's everything you need to know about historic event

The 24-day long march, which was based on Gandhi’s principle of satyagraha, marked the start of the Civil Disobedience Movement in India.

English medium education system inherited from British Raj helped create 'desi-vilayatis', says Imran Khan

Berating English-medium system in the country, the Pakistan prime minister said he was distanced from his culture and religion because of English education

Komagata Maru: The voyage that exposed the British Empire for what it was — a glorified profit-seeking operation

Less than two decades after the legendary Battle of Saragarhi, the much-feted soldiers of the British Empire came up against it in the Komagata Maru incident of 1914.

How the socio-political, cultural narrative about India set in motion in the Colonial era, persists

How was it that a race/nation that came to India as supplicants seeking permission to trade with us ended up as our imperial overlords? And what have been the continuing consequences of the same