The East India Company was started by merchants close merchantA person involved in buying and selling items, usually between different countries. In the British Empire, this was done using a lot ...
The introduction of Swiss watches to colonial India can be traced back to the 19th century, when the subcontinent’s increasing interactions with Europe made Swiss horology accessible to the privileged ...
An ordinary murder took an extraordinary turn one hundred years ago on this day - 12 January 1925 - when a group of men ambushed a couple on a car ride in an upscale suburb of Bombay (now Mumbai) in ...
in colonial India, shooting the man dead and slashing the woman's face. But the story that unfolded brought global spotlight on the case, while its complexity put the country's then British rulers ...