This week marks Indian independence from British rule and the partition that created the nations of India and Pakistan.

NPR: Indian Food: Eating in Technicolor

As India freed itself from British rule, Indian artists had their own liberation.

WSJ: Modernist Art From India: The Body Unbound at Rubin Museum

Alice Patten appeared with Aamir Khan in the award-winning film Rang De Basanti, playing a young woman who goes to India to make a documentary film about the British rule in the Indian subcontinent.

BBC: London's British Asians look to Bollywood

Foreign retailers are further restricted to opening only in cities with more than one million people, a rule aimed at protecting smaller Indian retailers.

WSJ: India Government Roiled as Ally Withdraws Over Retail Plan

In India, British rule pushed aside the feudal lords and made more room for Indian business, but of course favored British business even more.

FORBES: Can Asians Innovate?

In 1976, the Indian Ocean islands of Seychelles became an independent republic within the Commonwealth after 160 years of British rule.

CNN: Sunday,

In January, for example, both groups opposed the government's decision to lift, for future projects, a rule known as Press Note 18 that acted as a deterrent to investment by giving Indian firms a veto over their foreign joint-venture partners' other investments in India.

ECONOMIST: China's cup overflows; India catches the spillage

Despite all the talk about increased sophistication in the Chinese and Indian economies, the U.S. remains home to a highly educated workforce and an enforceable rule of law designed to protect intellectual property.

FORBES: For Manufacturing Sector, Europe's Loss Is America's Gain