A South African photojournalist has taken an interesting trip down history lane by visting South African towns with Dutch ...

Nigel Pickford has spent a lifetime searching for sunken treasure—without leaving dry land.

Wealthy Indian bankers, such as the Jagat Seths and Virji Vora, played pivotal roles in enabling colonial invasions. Their ...

Later, they added to it the Swedish colony of New Sweden along the Delaware River. The Dutch East India company was on the verge of bankruptcy, the colony was poorly administered, and Native Americans ...

Rattan was introduced to Europe in the 18th century by the Dutch East India Company, becoming a symbol of wealth and status. Its exotic aesthetic has resurfaced periodically, and its flexible nature ...

Ghosh makes visible the moral double standards prevalent in social discourses, especially regarding trading and profiting ...

It was founded as a royal academy for civil engineers, partly to educate civil servants who would work for the Dutch East India Company. The number of students at TU Delft increased dramatically after ...

India’s tea narrative is perpetually defined by disaster, with plantations shutting down and producers left with unsellable stocks. It doesn’t have to be so.

On August 16, 1945, the day after Japan surrendered to the Allied Forces in World War II, a 21-member independence ...

In 1608, King Ekathotsarot granted permission to the Dutch East India Company (VOC) to open a trading post in Ayutthaya. In 1634, during the reign of King Prasat Thong, a VOC factory and trading ...

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