Even though they occupied much of South Asia, British civil servants and their wives wanted a taste of home. Strawberries, for instance.

The Baul and Fakir lineages understand the cosmos through pairs of opposite essences, including male and female.

Using the definition that European theorists invented in the nineteenth century may not work for every society, like the Khasi.

Widespread market failure and unemployment triggered by the coronavirus pandemic have set off a crisis of domestic migration in India.

Mulligatawny soup started as a simple South Indian broth but was changed to appeal to British palates.

On the eve of its 6th polio-free anniversary, India immunizes over 170 million children, despite a lack of roads, reinfection threats, and a periodic mistrust of vaccines.

The historian William Dalyrmple's new book, The Anarchy, indicts the East India Company for "the supreme act of corporate violence in world history."

The proposal to partition British India along religious lines was put forward as early as 1940. The resulting constitutional provision endured until 2019.

Kathak is a classical form of Indian dance. Its practitioners use movement and gesture to tell stories, transcending gender and selfhood.

Gandhi's legacy helped shape independent India, if in sometimes indirect ways.