The Dutch Cemetery, located in Pulicat, a northern suburb of Chennai, stands as a silent yet deteriorating witness to centuries of history. Established in 1657 ...

While some countries benefit from such protectionism, others face higher costs and supply chain disruptions that inevitably ...

Baan Hollanda is an information center with a permanent exhibition on the history of Dutch-Thai relations ... In 1608, King Ekathotsarot granted permission to the Dutch East India Company (VOC) to ...

In 'India Before the Ambanis', historian Lakshmi Subramanian lays out the context in which Indian business influenced history ...

Mahfud Ikhwan’s novel following Inayatun and Mat, is equal parts a love story, a murder mystery, and a sociopolitical ...

As he sailed down the Coromandel coast from Machilipatnam looking for a place to set up a factory and perhaps a future settlement for the East India Company, Day was clear that among the factors ...

Donald Trump claims that South Africa's expropriation law is aimed at ‘seizing ethnic minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property without compensation’. This is a falsehood. Some historical perspective ...

…Poetry oozes somewhere out of Colombo’s toxic Beira, surrounded by so-called modern ‘millennial’, ‘hi-tech’ companies and boutique hotels with fanciful but ultimately useless architecture, who are ...

The Dutch fort in Cape Town The Dutch East India Company built Kasteel de Goede Hoop (Castle of Good Hope ... Bo-Kaap (meaning above the Cape in Afrikaans) is a residential area in Cape Town with a ...

and tried to compete with the Dutch, French and Portuguese merchants who were already there. They failed to compete and The East India Company turned their attention to southern India. When ...

In that article we dedicated to the tragic end of the Dutch Prime Minister and his brother in 1672, we explained that the ...