Alastair McClure, a legal historian of modern South Asia and the British Empire at the University of Hong Kong examines mercy ...

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The crown, in particular, serves as a tangible connection to the once-great Mughal dynasty and its imperial legacy, while also marking the transition to British colonial rule in India. The relics ...

In India, Bollywood - as rightly described and named by Helle Ryslinge in her film makes cinema that is often ‘larger than life.’ ...

The economic dynamics of British imperial rule further shaped the ... and the British Crown’s takeover of India (1857), the Indian mercantile class, particularly in the Bengal province, lost ...

The Karan Singh Tyagi-directed historical drama follows the aftermath of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919 ...

The geopolitical importance of Cyprus has been both a blessing and a curse, sparking centuries of conflict over control of ...

The Professor of History and African American Studies sat down with Fifteen Minutes to talk about the two-sided coin of liberalism, her undergraduate years at Princeton, and her favorite historically ...

That’s the year India—a former British colony—gained ... of Parliament in the United Kingdom in 2024, he wore the Imperial State Crown. Queen Camilla wore the George IV State Diadem ...

A commitment to republicanism underpinned the American Revolution in ways that demand a second look 250 years later. As new regulations enforced by appointed officials aimed to transform communities ...

Discussions and arguments over Ireland and the Commonwealth have had a fairly long existence, even since we left in 1949 ...