Is there a case for reparations? Oxfam’s huge estimate of the money drained from India by Britain’s colonial rule does not ...

The empire grew to rule over 400 million people ... India was directly ruled by Britain, and known as the British Raj. The British Raj had a big impact on the lives of people in both India ...

What made the British empire unique was they claimed that they ... The problem with discussing the British Raj and its “positive” impact on India is that there is such massive ignorance ...

This little nugget of history is on display at a travelling exhibition in Delhi that captures the complicated history of ...

Why would Oxfam, a once-respected charity, publish a careless and ill thought-out piece of propaganda such as its latest ...

To the British, India served as the jewel of the British Empire. The coffers of Britain ... and the ongoing domination under the British Raj of a population many times the size of the occupying ...

As the British Empire expanded through the long 19 th century ... Between ownership by the Company and the Raj, British control of India (including modern Pakistan and Bangladesh) stretches over 300 ...

how after the horrendous shock of the 1857 "Mutiny" the British state took over and turned this supremacy into the Raj, the jewel in the crown of the greatest empire the world had ever seen ...

Franz-Stefan Gady speaks with the author of India's War: World War II and the Making of Modern South Asia. India has acknowledged that there may not be a good legal case for the return of the diamond.

In these pages, we unpack some of the links to empire in our building and collections ... was built to house the British Viceroy at a time when India was under the control of the British Raj. Discover ...

In the British Empire, this was done using a lot of force and violence when local people did not cooperate with the merchants. who wanted to trade in Asia to get spices, cotton and indigo dye and ...