India has banned its railway staff from wearing their traditional uniform as part of Narendra Modi’s sweeping campaign to remove symbols of its colonial legacy.

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NEW Delhi, Aug 11 (Reuters) - India's government moved three bills in the lower house of parliament on Friday aimed at overhauling some colonial-era criminal laws, ranging from the controversial ...

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

New Delhi — India's Supreme Court has put on hold a controversial British colonial-era law that critics say has been widely misused against government critics for decades. The sedition law allows ...

Taxonomist and curator H.J. Noltie’s new work at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew in London sheds light on the lives of the ‘Company ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (WAVY)- Soon you’ll see a new nation-builder walking the cobblestone streets of Colonial Williamsburg. It’s part of an effort to expand the number of diverse stories told. In the ...

Dinner invites referring to India by its Sanskrit name have fueled a political row and public debate over what the country should be called, its history and colonial legacy as New Delhi prepares to ...

Thomas Babington Macaulay, member of the Governor-General's council of India in 1835, famously said that all the literature of India and Arabia were not worth one single shelf of English literature.

New Delhi (CNN) — When British traders landed on India’s shores in the 1600s, they arrived in search of spices and silk but stayed for centuries – leaving behind a legacy that would shape the nation ...