Even as the British Empire appropriated curry, authentic versions conquered local officials' tables.
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Anyone wanting a picture of what life was really like for the wives of the men who ran the Raj in the second half of the 19th century might find this book of household advice fascinating, writes KATHARINE WHITEHORN.
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It is a cool midsummer’s evening in Mayfair’s Cork Street – the nucleus of London’s contemporary art world. Number 33 is the professional home of Prahlad Bubbar – collector of Indian and Islamic art – and the location of his new exhibition, The New Medium: Photography in India 1855-1930. The New Medium is a neat survey of…
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Prabir Purkayastha has photographed the disappearing communities of Calcutta as well as the colonial structures in decay, a stories of glories past.
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Cambridge college forced to change 'offensive' theme of May ball
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Sex workers had to register themselves and get medically examined under British rule, new research shows.
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The last Kashi Naresh, Dr Vibhuti Narayan Singh was a learned and humble man, without any royal airs. He lived in a simple palace, the Ramnagar fort. Pictures of him with his family were taken sometime in the late 1980s, on his birthday. Revered by the people of Varanasi, the Kashi Naresh is traditionally the chief cultural patron and an essential part of all religious celebrations.⠀ ⠀ Image clicked and owned by @raghurai.official #VaranasiGuru⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #uttarpradesh…
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Eat, pray, colonise.
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East India House in Leadenhall Street was the London headquarters of the East India Company.
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President Maithripala Sirisena rescinded a colonial-era British order naming 19 nationals as “traitors” for leading [...]
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The Raj, as British India was known, was the jewel of the British Empire in the 1800s.
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Visit to India #Illustration #indian #elephant
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Unseen photographs of India, Ceylon, Burma and Southeast Asia from the days of the British Empire
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A coloured lithograph by Bequet Freres showing the British recapture of Delhi in September 1857 during the Sepoy Mutiny (1857-8). (National Army Museum, England)
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Reading A Passage to India, which is set in India in the 1920s, reminded me of my love for British Colonial decor. The British colonies a...
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Apple's advertisement featuring Mahatma Gandhi. Think Different.
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