Art historian Charles Greig has gifted 50 rare 18th and 19th-century paintings and watercolours to London's Tate gallery. The ...
In a remarkable gesture, Tate London has received a donation of 50 artworks from the British colonial era in India, ...
The Museum of British Colonialism (MBC) has filed a petition calling for a National Day of Commemoration for the Victims of ...
When Britain's Queen Elizabeth II first visited India in 1961, huge crowds lined up to catch a glimpse of her as her royal carriage moved through the streets of New Delhi. News reports spoke about ...
In 1825, English artist George Chinnery left Calcutta for Macau, chased away by his disgruntled wife Marianne and his creditors. He’d been based in India for the past 23 years, having previously lived ...
Since the late-1910s, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi had been at the forefront of India’s quest to shake off the yoke of British ...
Author: Chandini Jaswal When the Union Jack came down in August 1947, colonial rule ended on paper; whether it ended in ...
In the late seventeenth century, the Mughal Empire controlled almost all of the Indian subcontinent. European visitors marveled at the empire’s wealth and grandeur. Antonio Monserrate, a Portuguese ...