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.

The Muslim League was founded 118 years ago on December 30, 1906. A biography of its leader M.A. Jinnah’s fraught and tragic marriage ...

Sheila S. Coronel is Toni Stabile Professor of Practice in Investigative Journalism at Columbia University and Co-Founder of ...

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Imperial War Museums (IWM) is commemorating 150 years since Sir Winston Churchill's birth with a captivating new exhibition exploring his ...

An 1876 token tells the story of a famine period in India, and a rare example of the uniface bronze token is part of the ...

The late Mirwaiz founded Anjuman Nusrat-ul-Islam in 1899 and is remembered as ‘Sir Syed of Kashmir’ for his pioneering role in advocating modern education a ...

He won acclaim from critics and audiences even as the gritty stories he put on the big screen grappled with some of India’s ...

Well over a century ago, Jinnah was against displacing the judges for the state. More the pity that our members so recently ...

There was a spectacular rise in his leadership in the last thirteen years before independence (1934-1947). This was the period of decisive changes in the demands articulated by Jinnah and his ...

South Asia was fragmented in 1947 at the macro (regional) level, but even more egregiously so at the micro (nation-state) ...