How the British gave birth to the Adivasi vs. Dalit equation in the Indian state of Odisha.

The British didn't come to South Asia and immediately become the predominant power.

Like so many of South Asia's flashpoints, the Rohingya crisis has roots in the bloody Partition of 1947.

When Burma became Burma and India became India.

Gandhi inspired civil rights campaigns across the world. But did his success in movement politics offer wrong lessons for participatory democracy?

The politics of history can be useful for diplomacy but dangerous for grammar.

A recent British motion to condemn Pakistani control of the territory forgets that London made that control possible.

India for the most part has shed its aversion to power politics.

Indian armies over the past millennium seemed to have constantly grappled with three primary problems.

An Indian government commission is trying to make sense of the caste data.

Why did India's economy falter?

The British were instrumental in creating the one institution that, like nothing else, helped bring down their rule in India.

There are good reasons why Britain doesn't owe India reparations.

An excellent new book considers some of the less salutary aspects of Britain's history in India.

It is time for Kabul to accept the legality of the border.