Britain did not arrive in India planning to build an empire. It started as trade through the East India Company, but the company gained rights to raise armies, seize land, mint money, and declare war, ...

The history of 19th-century India, as chronicled through the records of its foreign rulers, is a study in paradox. While the ...

The East India Company established the British rule in India, and ruled the Indian subcontinent and other major parts of the world for nearly two centuries, expanding the British Empire to the point ...

The British occupation of India was built upon a great lie: the assertion that foreign dominion served the "welfare and ...