As early as 1774 the East India Company was exploring the possibilities of growing tea in other countries apart from China and sent a few seeds to the British emissary in Bhutan to plant there.

Tariffs have long been effective political weapons for countries. Expect, history shows us that when economic disputes ...

William Dalrymple's best-selling novel The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company will be adapted for the big screen by acclaimed British director Stephen Frears, who is known for ...

Sumptuous objects tell the story of chinoiserie in a New York exhibition — though its feminist thesis is tendentious ...

Indians, generally, are peace-loving people. Most Indians from Occupied Kashmir to Kannyakumari ...

It is an exploration of the British East India Company’s commercial ambitions in India, which ultimately led to the takeover of an entire subcontinent. The rights to William Dalrymple’s ...

Under British East India Company rule, the fertile land and water resources of central and eastern Punjab were exploited for commercial agriculture, whereas western Punjab remained underdeveloped ...

One exhibit that has always drawn my attention is Tipu Sultan’s tiger holding a British East India company soldier, one of Arthur Wellesley’s troops, in its jaws. Even in the nineteenth centur ...

The towers collapsed in 1833, and only one of them was rebuilt to be damaged in a lightning strike in 1856. It was destroyed ...

Former policeman turned crime writer JOHN SUTHERLAND raises a glass to the drinking habits of some of our greatest fictional ...

Originating in the Horn of Africa and first cultivated in the Arabian Peninsula, coffee has been providing the world with ...