Asia

In Hanoi, Vietnam, correspondents filed into the press camp to hear about the latest military engagement in France’s war against the Communist-led Viet Minh. The French colonel presiding explained that French forces had secured a crushing

Bhopal in central India is celebrated as a city of lakes, but it also has a unique history.  For four generations, it was ruled by a dynasty of Muslim female rulers: Qudsia (1801-81; r. 1819-37),

National histories have been and still remain influential. Yet historians increasingly explore the history of Britain in terms of the histories of the various parts of Britain’s former empire. How might we view Reformation as

Soon after some fifty historians made a public statement against the rising intolerance against minorities in India, the attacks on them began. These ranged from calling them opportunists, minority-appeasers and pseudo-secularists, to calling into question

Twenty-five years ago today, on the night of 3 June 1989, tanks moved into central Beijing to crush the ‘counter-revolutionary rebellion’ underway on Tiananmen Square, leading to the 'massacre' which made headlines around the world.