It's now largely forgotten that in the early 1900s, nearly a third of the Arabian Peninsula was under British India.

The scope of the work is enormous. The premise is that as recently as 1928, 12 modern nations - India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, ...

On Shattered Lands, his book about the five partitions of the Indian Empire and the many forgotten stories attached to them ...

Pakistan and India became dominions of the British crown—with the understanding they would ultimately become fully independent. But Mountbatten refused to issue the maps until two days later in ...

With the end of British colonial rule in 1947, the Indian subcontinent was divided into two nations, majority-Hindu India and majority-Muslim Pakistan. But simmering secular tensions and a hastily ...

The writer on the myths of national history, the Empire’s hidden corners, the wedges driven by narrow visions of Hindu and ...

A defamation case filed against Sankaran Nair helped spotlight the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919.

The UK Foreign Office has updated its safety advice for Brits heading abroad with alerts issued amid escalated conflict in ...

Unverified reports are circulating about three ships ablaze in the Gulf of Oman, near the Strait of Hormuz, heightening regional tensions. These claims, accompanied by photos, raise concerns about the ...

Wilson Survey maps, a century-old cartographic masterpiece, is being revived at a conservation lab at IGNCA—one brittle sheet ...

Israel launched its offensive against Iran's nuclear and military infrastructure on Friday. Iran has retaliated to the ...

Amid tensions with Tehran, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) shared a map that depicted the ‘global threat’ of Iranian missiles ...