Britain did not arrive in India planning to build an empire. It started as trade through the East India Company, but the company gained rights to raise armies, seize land, mint money, and declare war, ...

While hundreds of millions of workers and rural poor in India struggle to make ends meet and some two hundred million people suffer from malnourishment, the income share of India’s wealthiest 1 ...

On Diwali, a major Hindu holiday, 42-year-old Rishi Sunak made history by becoming Britain's first prime minister of color. Sunak is a practicing Hindu and the son of African-born immigrant parents of ...

The first Sikh Gurudwara was established in 1912 by the early immigrant Sikh farmers in Stockton, California. Credit: Wikimedia Commons As World War I loomed in Europe, in California’s San Francisco ...

It was August 14, 1947. The sun baked Karachi with a festive fury, casting long shadows across the thronging crowds as Lord Louis Mountbatten's plane touched down. The last Viceroy of India, sweating ...

As Rishi Sunak made history this week by becoming Britain’s first Prime Minister of Indian descent, many in the South Asian nation were quick to congratulate the new leader – with some in the media ...

The 1947 Partition of British India is memorialized as one of the bloodiest and largest migrations in human history. It is estimated that close to 15 million people were uprooted and that between ...

Built at a time when higher education, especially commerce, was largely the preserve of a privileged few and access to ...