So Parliament took a new approach. It passed laws—the Sugar Act and Stamp Act— to raise revenue directly, bypassing the ...

Long before the British began counting castes, a Rajput kingdom in Rajasthan quietly did it first — not to classify people, ...

A recent analysis, drawn by a financial analyst over a Linkedin post asserts that income inequality in India is now more ...

The richest one per cent of Indians now control over 40 per cent of the nation's wealth while the bottom half share just 6.4 ...

The Declaration of Independence, adopted on July 4, 1776, was a game-changer for the 13 American colonies. This bold move cut ...

Parliament’s Stamp Act tax of the mid-1760s ignited the Anglo-American conflict. Yet, as historians broadly agree, it was ...

Alarmed by the policies of President Donald Trump, millions turned out last month for protests around the United States and ...

Sure, the British packed up in 1947, but their love for hills and “summer retreats” still echoes through winding roads, ...

It was 249 years ago, in 1776, that 13 British colonies in North America declared their independence. In recent years many of the men who became known as the Founding […] ...

The festival includes Revolutionary-era military encampments, musters, and re-enactments, as well as demonstrations of ...

In 1791, the slave revolt in Haiti turned into a revolution. In the 1800s, a series of rebellions fought the British Raj’s colonial rule in India.

He concluded, he later wrote, that the troops were “ exceeding dirty & nasty people ” led by indifferent officers with an “ ...