This indirect governance allowed the British to administer a vast territory with a relatively small administrative staff. Before Britisher rule, India was known as the golden bird. But their ...

Eager to break China’s monopoly on tea, the British were actively seeking alternative sources. In the early 19th century, British adventurer Robert Bruce learned of wild tea plants in Assam from ...

Before British rule, there was no difference with Hindus and Muslims, people believed we were all born in India and we were all Indians. My family was Hindu, but our 'Rikshawala' (rickshaw driver ...

This was the first of several famines to hit India during British rule throughout the 1700s and ... and turned into expensive clothes and fabrics before being sold at a higher price back in ...

Before the British established their foothold ... making it a financial colony of Britain. Under British rule, India’s self-sustaining economy was dismantled to serve British industrial needs.

Instead, it led to a complex discussion on the impact of Britain’s colonisation of Ireland, and the Raj in India. The irony is that the Irish helped make the British Empire. It also later unmade ...

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.