Opinion

Voices: There’s one thing that India can learn from the British after all

There’s one thing that India can learn from the British after all… - COMMENT: The removal of a bust of Edwin Lutyens, the Victorian architect who built New Delhi, and the outcry it has has prompted, ...

‘It can be very moving’: The Britons travelling to India to trace their Raj-era ancestors

A few years ago my mother-in-law, alarmed by a Staffordshire bull terrier that had moved in with our neighbours, suggested ...
Time

What Was Revealed When British Officials Calculated How Much a Colonial Subject’s Life Was Worth

Indian visitors in Amritsar in 2011 look at a painting depicting the Jallianwala Bagh massacreNarinder Nanu—AFP via Getty Images One hundred and five years ago, in April 1919, Mani Ram, a middle-aged ...
Observer

At the British Museum, India’s Ancient Heart Meets Contemporary London

The British Museum in London has often been accused of cultural imperialism and colonialism, particularly by the U.K.’s ethnic minorities. There is a bitter dispute about many famous pieces acquired ...