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.

Colonialism is closely related to imperialism. Imperialism is the policy or ethos of using power and influence to control ...

In a move to shed yet another colonial relic, railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Friday announced discontinuing the railway uniforms intr.

In the long history of European colonialism, some colonialists did better by their colonies than others, and the legacy is mostly one of still-enduring pain. For example, virtually no one (save Newt ...

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NEW DELHI, July 1 (Reuters) - India replaced colonial-era criminal laws with new legislation on Monday, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government said would make the country more just, but the ...

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.

A historian has suggested Britain return looted artefacts to its former colonies instead of vast sums in reparations, after an Oxfam report suggested India was owed over £52 trillion. The report ...

British colonialism turned India’s tigers into trophies. Between 1860 and 1950, more than 65,000 were shot for their skins. The fortunes of the Bengal tiger, one of Earth’s biggest species of big cat, ...

It is hard to accept that India would have remained stagnant but for the colonial rule. Actually, we may have modernised ...