K. N. Panikkar shaped how modern India studies its past, questioning easy narratives and confronting the politics of memory.

Actor discusses diaspora roots, colonial migration and stereotypes in Hollywood while speaking about her film The Bluff ...

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Throughout history, empires have survived only as long as they could project their power. This power could be real or imagined, but it must be believable to its subjects. In 1942, the British Empire ...

Itinerary of François Pyrard de Laval includes a visit to "Inde." On a chilly afternoon in February 1611, the town of Laval, a prosperous mercantile conurbation on the River Mayenne in northwest ...

India’s decision to fly its flag at half-mast for Queen Elizabeth, someone who was also a colonial ruler until her last breath, is antithetical to the country’s post-1947 identity. Britain’s Queen ...

KOZHIKODE: Kandiyoor Narayana Panikkar, the Marxist historian who firmly stood up against every attempt to communalise the discipline and upheld the sanctity of empirical facts, died in ...

You might think that India, a country with nuclear weapons, an ambitious space program and aspirations for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, would have better things to debate ...

Shoojit Sarkar’s movie “Sardar Udham,” which is based on the life of an Indian revolutionary who assassinated Michael O’Dwyer, the British colonial official responsible for the Jallianwallah Bagh ...

Thomas Babington Macaulay, member of the Governor-General's council of India in 1835, famously said that all the literature of India and Arabia were not worth one single shelf of English literature.