This was the first of several famines to hit India during British rule throughout the 1700s and 1800s. From 1757, the East India Company began to control the government, economy and education ...

The launch of the book, Making Empire, was jointly organised by the Embassy of Ireland and the British High Commission – an ...

India's maharajahs ... beat the British would expose the empire's so-called mission to "civilise". The story also plays down the paranoia and fragility which defined the Raj: though the princes ...

The initial acquisition of India under the British East India Company and the ongoing domination under the British Raj of a population ... and economy under British rule. 7-12 Explain the social ...

Indian soldiers of the British Army revolted against the Raj in 1857 Indian soldiers ... of 1857 - a rebellion against the rule of the British East India Company. The residents of the village ...

When the British dismantled their Raj in 1947 India, as the 'successor' state, inherited the colonial unitary central apparatus whereas Pakistan, as the 'seceding' state, had no semblance of a central ...

It's arguable that India, as we understand it, now didn't exist until the period known as the British Raj, when it was subjected to colonial rule. For most of the last 2,500 years, it was ...

For the ink was not yet dry on the 1947 charter of sovereignty before what had been one great single nation under British rule became split into two sullenly hostile countries, Pakistan and India.

American Popular Music in Britain's Raj is the first systematic study to address the character and scope of American popular music in India during British rule. Drawing on ethnographic and archival ...