“But actually, what we’re talking about here is the artistic and aesthetic achievement of India, particularly of the artisans and of the designers, and of the interaction between their ...

The British East India Company and Resource Extraction The arrival of the British East India Company in the early 1600s marked the beginning of systematic exploitation. The Battle of Plassey in ...

Photograph by Jamie Orlando Smith As the ambitions of the British in India went from commerce to colonisation in the 18th and 19th centuries, their eating habits evolved. While soldiers in camps ...