Dive into nine powerful books that shape Shashi Tharoor’s worldview from ancient Indian classics to political satire and ...

So I think to understand American history, you really do have to understand British Empire as well. SIMON: Yeah. A good portion of the book is phrased as a personal journey. You're from a Sikh ...

it’s as if the ghosts of imperial history that she set out to vanquish had returned to inhabit her book. The story of the British Empire in the twentieth century is also a story of forced ...

A book which will be welcome to many who have found it impossible to keep track of the rapidly changing relationships between different parts of the British Empire. The book is distinguished by ...

But in the flush days of Queen Victoria’s empire, the British conscience was not always so sensitive. In this lively book, Historian Bernard Semmel recounts the brutal re action of the British ...

The British Empire and Commonwealth Museum ... Michael Riley, co-author of a new text book called The Impact of Empire, written for children aged 11 to 14, says one of the main obstacles to teaching ...

While the apogee of the globe-spanning empire passed decades ago ... In any event, “the collapse of British power,” chronicled by historian Correlli Barnett in his book of that name, can be seen as a ...

This asymmetry is illustrated by one of the book’s most remarkable chapters, in which Liam Liburd, a professor of black British history, defends comparing the British Empire with Nazi Germany ...

A now-viral video of Shashi Tharoor, termed as his 'Savage Takedown' against the British Raj is making rounds on social media ...

As someone who grew up in the last days of the British Empire, I am often asked how it was that so few people controlled so ...