In 1947, when the British Empire withdrew from India, they hastily drew a line that would separate the newly-formed nations of India and Pakistan. This border, known as the Radcliffe Line, was ...

An erroneous map in the 'Summary Report for the State of West Bengal' is fresh ammo amidst her outcry that Bengali-speaking workers are being targeted in BJP-ruled states ...

Explore the cultural and historical significance of Indo-British textile labels at the ongoing exhibition in Bengaluru's Museum of Art And Photography.

The United Kingdom is in talks with India to ensure shared access and benefit from historical artefacts like the Kohinoor diamond, said Lisa Nandy, Britain's Secretary of State for Culture, Media ...

Observers say communal tensions between Hindus and Muslims in India's West Bengal state are being used for political leverage by rival parties.

Soon after, the throne of Bengal was handed over to Mir Jafar, as promised to him by the British. However, during Mir Jafar’s reign, unrestrained looting and economic exploitation took place in Bengal ...

In colonial India, that trust was deliberately fabricated. As British textile mills flooded the subcontinent with factory-made cloth, labels – then known as tickets, chaap, tika, or shippers’ marks ...

Within the bustling bazaars of 19th and early–20th century India, a distinct visual language took root in cloth shops, trading both British and Indian mill–made textiles. Accompanying each bolt of ...

These labels—some devotional, others imperial, all symbolic—are the subject of Ticket Tika Chaap: The Art of the Trademark in the Indo-British Textile Trade, a new exhibition at the Museum of Art & ...

Gautam Bhatia: 'Any Constitutional document is essentially a power map of that country... India's Constitution has insufficiently democratized the colonial power map' Lawyer and author Gautam ...

Kolkata/London: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee invited British businesses to invest in the state in areas such as automation, engineering and artificial intelligence.

The partition of British India in 1947 posed significant challenges to the state-building process in both India and Pakistan, including in Bengal, which faced the complexities of being divided ...