A decade has passed since the struggle of the Indian subcontinent to free itself from British imperial ... British rule became split into two sullenly hostile countries, Pakistan and India.

In this pathbreaking empirical study, Lee and Paine illuminate the complex ways in which colonialism shaped the prospects for democracy in countries emerging from imperial rule.

Gandhi (1869-1948), who opposed British imperial rule in India during the 20th century. Gandhi took the religious principle of ahimsa (doing no harm) common to Buddhism, Hinduism and Jainism and ...

India was on the cusp of freedom from British rule in 1947 and Vappala Pangunni Menon was completely worn out. Three decades of working in the grinding imperial bureaucracy had taken its toll on ...

India's maharajas, who once ruled over around 140 million people across 565 princely states, saw their powers diluted after the country's independence from British imperial rule in 1947.

India finally succumbed to British rule in 1857, but successfully won its full independence by 1947. European commercial interests had carved up China into their own privileged trade zones, which ...