She made the point that Punjab’s strong economy today, on both sides of the border, owed its prosperity to the British Empire. She said the textile industry, the largest in Pakistan, was ...

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He is the author of a number of books on the early history of British India and was editor of The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire (Cambridge, 1996; paperback edition, 2001) and ...

A defamation case filed against Sankaran Nair helped spotlight the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919.

Inglorious Empire, by Shashi Tharoor, a United Nations diplomat turned Indian National Congress MP in New Delhi, adds to a growing list of books on what the British did to India, most recently Jon ...

In 1858, India became an official colony of the British Empire. It was considered the ‘jewel in the crown’ of the British Empire. Why was India referred to as the ‘jewel in the crown’ of ...

The British East India Company had given way to crown control after the 1857 Sepoy Rebellion and justified its conquest with a promise of bringing “civilisation” to its colonies.

Saturday marks the 20th anniversary of the end of Britain's empire. On July 1, 1997, the U.K. handed Hong Kong over to China, following decades of former colonies gaining independence from Britain.

Controlling India, in short, was central to the British Empire and to Britain’s sense of itself as the world’s leading power. What allowed Britain, a small island far off in the northern ...

East India Company. British involvement in India during the 18th century can be divided into two phases, one ending and the other beginning at mid-century.