We've been here before, another small British garrison is under siege but this is where our story comes to a head. The EIC, ...

Their connection with India may go back to trade along ... a mutually beneficial alliance with the British. Hasan Ali shah helped them in the conquest of Sindh in lieu of which he received an ...

IN a captivating keynote address that echoed with the whispers of ancient trade winds, the Tengku Ampuan of Pahang, Tunku ...

The other theme examined in this book is the consequences of the Kutch’s fractured polity and its consequences. The right to collect revenue and exercise judicial authority remained a contested domain ...

In the age of discovery and conquest, European mariners often named ... but by European seafarers en route to India and Java. Even European home waters were named by sailors after their destination.

This is the logic of conquest. First, invade and destroy ... has been wiped from the map. The Great Mosque, Gaza’s largest and oldest, survived empires but not this war. The Church of Saint ...

At that time the British Empire covered nearly a quarter of the globe, and a mixture of carrot and stick saw men and munitions pour in from Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and beyond.

Aurel Stein, a Hungarian-born scholar working for the British government in India and the British Museum, made it to Dunhuang in early 1907 using Xuan­zang's seventh-century descriptions to guide ...

The island next to South Africa is actually a sliver of land that split off from India. It was settled two and a half thousand ... ministers that they suggested von Benevsky to begin the conquest of ...