This year marks 50 years since Sikkim's integration into India. Before India's independence, the British, along with the ...

The Rising, a film based on the 1857 Indian revolt against the British East India Company. Directed by Ketan Mehta and ...

Gurkhas have served in the British Army since the two-year Anglo-Nepalese War ended in 1816, which saw the British East India Company fight the city state of Gorkha in what is now western Nepal.

Underlying grievances over British taxation and recent land annexations by the English East India Company (EEIC) angered Indians and within weeks, dozens of units of the Indian army joined peasant ...

Change of rules in Indian Army hiring scheme has affected young ... Back then, they were recruited by the British East India Company. Post-independence a tripartite agreement between India ...

Using Indian Army in WWII The British colonial regime in India was ... a 20,000-strong military force of locally recruited Indian soldiers, in 1757 the British East India Company (EIC) became the ...

The East India Company was one of these competing powers ... By February 1757, the Company and the British Army had won Calcutta back. The following month, Robert Clive seized the French fort of ...

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 story begins with the British East India Company, which, after gaining control of India, established a monopoly on its trade. The Company initially bought goods from India using silver ...