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 ...

This last episode tells how a foreign multinational (the East India ... the British state took over and turned this supremacy into the Raj, the jewel in the crown of the greatest empire the ...

The East India Company was started by merchants close merchantA person involved in buying and selling items, usually between different countries. In the British Empire, this was done using a lot ...

which had ruled over much of India for centuries. It can still be seen in London today. After the 1857 uprising, when the British ended the Mughal rule, this crown came into the hands of Major ...

a fissure was cleaved in what some had previously referred to as the jewel in the crown of the British empire. The 75th anniversary of the moment when India, Pakistan and what later became ...

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

On 1 February 1850, the jewel was sealed ... of the jewels for the British crown ‘Escape the heat’ 9 Stunning Indian getaways under ₹50,000 this summer 10 of India’s most iconic Christmas ...