Since independence, women's legal, political, educational, and social status have changed dramatical...

The imposition of landholding size ceilings was a major plank of India's land reform effort, with th...

The post-independence Indian land programme has gone through several stages. There were numerous cha...

Shah Bano, a 62-year-old Muslim woman from Indore, Madhya Pradesh, filed a petition in court in Apri...

On the night of October 31, 1985, Rajiv Gandhi, the son of Indira Gandhi and the grandson of Jawahar...

Meanwhile, the Congress experienced both a split and a resurgence. A large number of established Con...

Background of emergency: The JP Movement sparked hopes that the question of who truly represented t...

The Pakistani Army began committing barbaric genocide against innocent civilians in East Pakistan in...

THE EARLY YEARS The Tashkent Conference resulted in a tragic outcome. Shastri, who had a history of...

Lal Bahadur Shastri was India's second Prime Minister and a senior leader of the Indian National Con...

After 1947, India's attempt to pursue an independent foreign policy was a high point in world politi...

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the indomitable man who integrated 562 princely states with the Union of I...