British india

The long read: It is true that before British rule, India was starting to fall behind other parts of the world – but many of the arguments defending the Raj are based on serious misconceptions about India’s past, imperialism and history itself

In a desperate bid to head off a Scottish Yes vote, David Cameron evoked a mythical British Empire that had given democracy to the poor and freedom to the slaves. Here Ken Olende looks back at what life was really like when Britannia ruled the waves

Gallery of vintage images of British India in the 19th century.

All 178 of the plate-glass negatives were found inside a size-nine Peter Lord box by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland in Edinburgh.

The 1857-8 Sepoy Mutiny (aka Sepoy Rebellion, Indian Mutiny, The Uprising or First Indian War of Independence) was a failed rebellion against the rule of the British East India Company (EIC) in India...

The old walled city in east Baroda is intersected by two wide streets terminating at the four city gates. At the crossroads in the city centre where the roads meet is a marketplace and the Mandvi, a square Muslim pavilion with three arches on each side, a tiered roof and a clock tower in the centre, dating from 1736. This is a view looking down one of these busy main streets towards the Mandvi.

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It is a cool midsummer’s evening in Mayfair’s Cork Street – the nucleus of London’s contemporary art world. Number 33 is the professional home of Prahlad Bubbar – collector of Indian and Islamic art – and the location of his new exhibition, The New Medium: Photography in India 1855-1930. The New Medium is a neat survey of…

Learn all about the Nehru jacket, which is often referred to as the Mao suit and features a mandarin collar that is popular in Asia.