Queen Victoria

Book Review | Selective Inclusion? Caricatures reveal the workings of the imperial mind

A study of drawings from Vanity Fair magazine of the late nineteenth century featuring prominent subjects of the British Empire reveals the imperial mindset that chose them

Christmas 2020: History of festivity, Christmas tree; all you need to know about birth of Jesus of Nazareth

The Christmas tree tradition made its way from Germany to the United States in the late 18th century, when Hessian troops joined the British to fight in the Revolutionary War.

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.

200 years on, George Eliot's life in the Victorian age provides enduring lessons for millennials and baby boomers

The most famous person born in 1819 is probably Queen Victoria, but she had many important contemporaries. One of these was George Eliot, a pioneering woman writer who would have turned 200 this week.

Manu S Pillai's latest book features episodes from India's history and the lives of its prolific figures

Manu Pillai's The Courtesan, The Mahatma and The Italian Brahmin is filled with crisp narratives sprawled across multiple periods in an attempt to try and present interesting, engaging, significant topics, themes and figures from Indian history

Hindu Sena pays tribute to Queen Victoria on death anniversary, hails empress for freeing India from 'autocratic Mughals'

The Hindu Sena had celebrated the birthday of US President Donald Trump with a cake weighing 7.1 kg in New Delhi in 2017.

Queen Victoria, re-examined: In The English Maharani, Miles Taylor looks anew at her legacy, rule in India

Miles Taylor, the author of the The English Maharani, speaks about writing of Queen Victoria as being invested and interested in India and its people

Google Doodle celebrates the 180th birthday of Sir William Henry Perkin who accidentally invented the first synthetic dye

Sonny Ross, an illustrator who drew today's Google Doodle tries to capture the frenzy of purple clothing in Britain after mauveine was commercialised.

CISF takes over security cover of Victoria Memorial in Kolkata; move to revamp surveillance system

The security of the iconic Victoria Memorial Hall in the city was on Monday handed over to the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF).

Victoria & Abdul: Why the Queen's firm, and often controversial, friendships were her redeeming feature

Her friendship with Abdul Karim only reaffirmed the kind of woman Victoria was: Always looking outward at the people and things the world had to offer, hunting for solace and happiness in her old age