The initial acquisition of India under the British East India Company and the ongoing domination under the British Raj of a population many times the size of the occupying force proved to be a ...
Just over 400 years ago, a group of London merchants arrived here on the Indian coast hoping to do some peaceful trading. Those early pioneers dreamt of making huge profits. Over 200 years, the ...
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Irish who served British in India were rejected at home. An exhibition looks at their historyThe exhibition, ‘Looking East’, highlights the lives of soldiers, colonial administrators, and civil bureaucrats from Ireland ...
Dan Snow describes how the position of the East India Company came under threat from forces at home and in India, resulting in India eventually being given to Queen Victoria. In England ...
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