This episode examines how Britain took control of India through the East India Company. Read more ...

To the British, India served as the jewel of the British Empire. The coffers of Britain overflowed with wealth extracted from the subcontinent. The initial acquisition of India under the British ...

The two Treaties of Purandar, signed over a century apart, shaped Indian history. The first, in 1665, was a setback for the ...

The UK has had it too easy with India thus far. It should now be said, in no uncertain terms, that diplomacy cannot be a ...

We begin with the immediate concerns of the Huseypur Raja and the circumstances that shaped the nature of his opposition to ...

After losing the 13 colonies Britain did not want its empire to shrink again, and decided to make it even bigger. Ruling India was economically very beneficial for Britain, because the British ...

She said: "The whole business of partition is very much a part of British history. Britain ruled India. It was the empire. It was the end of that empire. It had consequences not just for South ...

From the mid-19th century onward, Irish and Indian nationalists forged strong personal and associational connections, recognising how both societies suffered under British imperialism. Famines, ...

An empire is a single state that contains a variety of peoples, one of which is dominant. As a form of political organization ...

Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India (Penguin, 2018); Peter Clarke, Hope and Glory: Britain 1900-2000 (CUP, 2004); P D Morgan; S Hawkins (ed) The Black Experience and the Empire (OUP, 2004 ...