Above and beyond publishing journal articles, credentialing young people and producing spectacles on the court, the field and the gridiron, the job of a university is to keep the books. Less visible ...

In the late 1960s – more than 100 years after its creation – the former British Indian diplomat and Tibetologist Hugh Richardson noticed a collection of extraordinary maps in the India Office Library.

The British first began wearing khaki during their occupation of India. The tan-colored tactical camouflage soon spread across the world. Originally the uniform of 19th century British soldiers in ...

There is something of the Cinderella story to Lakshmi Bai, a commoner who rose to become rani (queen) of Jhansi, a princely state in mid-19th century India. Most fairy tales would end there, but in ...

Edgar Feuchtwanger: ‘Through my childish eyes, most of what I saw was part of everyday life and could make Hitler seem almost normal, human’ - MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP ​Edgar Feuchtwanger, who ...