A special edition of Booked with Gaurav Sawant features author Sam Dalrymple discussing his book Shattered Lands: Five ...

The forgotten rebellion of Chitradurga against British rule in 1849, captured in a historical novel by B.L. Venu.

Far from the pomp, in the sweltering slums of Calcutta, Mahatma Gandhi waged his own desperate battle. He had refused ...

Maharaja Krishna Kumar Sinhji Gohil of Bhavnagar made history by being the first princely ruler to voluntarily merge his ...

India’s first anti-British uprising occurred in the early 1770s, led by the Sadhus and Sannyasis. The Sannyasi rebellion in ...

Trivia: Javed Akhtar’s great-great-grandfather, Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi, was imprisoned at the cellular jail (kaala pani) in ...

Long before satellites, colonial powers used hand-drawn maps not to navigate, but to dominate. In India, cartography became a ...

During World War I, Indian revolutionaries and German agents conspired to incite an armed revolt against British rule. The ...

Mhow (Madhya Pradesh): Film Director and Music composer Sanjay Leela Bhansali is eyeing his next project "Love & War" with a ...

India's Prime Minister has warned Pakistan it will not succumb to, or tolerate, nuclear blackmail. In Narendra Modi's 12th ...

For Khan, politics ought to be on matters of development, and Independence means: "If I have economic independence and freedom of speech, its enough--in a respectable way, I have the right to share my ...

Crown prince, commander, and revolutionary, Bir Tikendrajit Singh defied British domination with unwavering courage, becoming ...