In 1600, Queen Elizabeth I approved the creation of the East India Company, a powerful private trading company. The East India Company was started by merchants close merchantA person involved in ...

On 1 February 1850, the jewel was sealed in a small iron safe inside a red dispatch box, both sealed with red tape and a wax seal and kept in a chest at Bombay Treasury awaiting a steamer ship ...

This last episode tells how a foreign multinational (the East India Company) thousands of miles away gradually and almost by chance took power over great swathes of the Indian subcontinent; how ...

Discuss the British perception of India and Britain’s role in the subcontinent Examine the methods used by the British to establish and then maintain control of India. To the British, India ...

"Imagine a land where the sun once set on a gilded empire and rose on the flag of a foreign crown. This is the story of India’s transformation—from the grandeur of the Mughal Peacock Throne to ...