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 ...

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 ...

But the partition of British India into the new nations by a line drawn by a civil servant on a map, triggered a series ... the period known as the British Raj, when it was subjected to colonial ...

This last episode tells how a foreign multinational (the East India Company ... of the 1857 "Mutiny" the British state took over and turned this supremacy into the Raj, the jewel in the crown ...