Colonial india

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…

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.

The East India company was a trade stock company created to trade with India, but which eventuallly just became a tool that the english monarch used to gain control of India.

Filmed from a copy of the original publication held by the National Library of Canada

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Gallery of vintage images of British India in the 19th century.

Sex workers had to register themselves and get medically examined under British rule, new research shows.

Even as the British Empire appropriated curry, authentic versions conquered local officials' tables.

The 1857-8 Sepoy Mutiny (aka Sepoy Rebellion, Indian Mutiny, The Uprising or First Indian War of Independence) was a failed rebellion against the rule of the British East India Company (EIC) in India...

What can Hindi cookbooks and culinary identity tell us about the formation of the Indian state in the early twentieth century? Saumya Gupta explores.

In December, the British Library uploaded beautiful images from a variety of colonial-era travel books.

Before the business got up to real-time speed with 24×7 broadcast channels and social media empowering us all to be citizen journalists, the news business was a slow, meticulous process that took time, effort, and [...]

The East India Company (EIC) is one of the most infamous corporations in history. From a office in Leadenhall Street in London, the company conquered...

In residential south kolkata, enterprising young locals are turning brightly colored old estates, once doomed for demolition, into the city ’s latest hot spots

Maharaja Ram Singh II of Jaipur took to photography and absolutely loved taking pictures in his free time, thus the name ‘Photographer Prince'! This was back when photography was a new art, and he clicked these amazing frames between 1857-1865.His most famous subjects were his 4 wives, who constitute most of his collection that was found in the City Palace of Jaipur. He liked to capture within the photographs, the culture and costumes of his people. The king was known to be seriously…

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Jaipur Then & Now. Hawa Mahal in old & new pictures. Exploring Hawa Mahal in pictures through its history in this Jaipur blog.

European bungalow somewhere in India c1880's - credit: James Kerr (pumpparkphotos.com)

Information on 'Scenes from India' by Joseph Austin Benwell in the nineteenth century. Scenes of Indian life.