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

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 ...

India, Oct. 10 -- Think of colonial India, and the usual suspects emerge - Kolkata's mansions, Mumbai's forts, Chennai's boulevards, and Pondicherry's French Quarter. These cities were epicentres of ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Bill McGurn, Kate Bachelder Odell and Kim Strassel. Photo: AFP/Getty Images/Khalil Hamra/Associated Press You might think that India, a country ...

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 ...

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