September 8, 2021 - How many years did the British rule India? Find the answer and know more about IAS preparation at BYJU’S.

October 1, 2020 - The complicated relationship between Britain and India began with the formation of the East India Company in 1600, by the command of Elizabeth I. the intention of the company was to explore and to compete with other powers in the East Indies. Britain was not successful here, so turned her attention ...

May 3, 2024 - The East India Company obtained ... it controlled until it was the primary power in the subcontinent. After the Indian Rebellion of 1857 the British Government nationalised the Company creating the British Raj. The Company lost all its administrative powers; its Indian possessions, including its armed forces, were taken over ...

December 19, 2018 - So the entire Indian population ... British control. Britain used the windfall from this fraudulent system to fuel the engines of imperial violence – funding the invasion of China in the 1840s and the suppression of the Indian Rebellion in 1857. And this was on top of what the Crown took directly from Indian taxpayers to pay for its wars. As Patnaik points out, “the cost of all Britain’s wars of conquest outside Indian borders were charged always ...

June 19, 2019 - A complex system of beliefs and social identities was oversimplified by colonisers, writes Sanjoy Chakravorty.

September 1, 2018 - Omer Aziz indicts the Western amnesia around colonialism.

June 22, 2015 - It displaced fifteen million people and killed more than a million. How did it happen?

March 22, 2024 - How one member of the Indian Civil Service coped with being a colonial usurper.

January 23, 2024 - A brief history of the British East India Company whose tea became part of the protests and Boston Tea Party.

March 28, 2022 - The world’s biggest colonial power prided itself on being a liberal democracy. Was this part of the problem?

In the late 19th and early to mid-20th centuries, it became a pivotal participant in the Indian independence movement, with over 15 million members and over 70 million participants in its opposition to British colonial rule in India. The decades following the Indian Rebellion of 1857 were a period ...

His grandson Jelaleddin Mahmomet ... Northern India and Afghanistan, extending his rule as far south as the Godvari River. The Moguls were Muslims who ruled over a Hindu majority. Akbar maintained his rule by his religious tolerance and Mogul military might, much like the British later. But after his death, the empire began to decline. This decline continued with the rule of Aurangzeb (1658-1707), who became emperor in 1658. Mogul control in south India ...

If you view the colonial period as a harmful aberration, you will tend to think India can catch up as it leaves these distortions behind.

3 weeks ago - British Empire, a worldwide system of dependencies—colonies, protectorates, and other territories—that over a span of some three centuries was brought under the sovereignty of the crown of Great Britain and the administration of the British government. Learn more about the British Empire ...

August 14, 2022 - Britain left India 75 years ago and the country became two separate states, India and Pakistan.

March 16, 2024 - The British signed a peace treaty to end the war in 1769 (Keay 2000, p. 396). The treaty essentially reverted the territories back to the control of whichever side they were before the war started, as if nothing happened. ... Contributing factors: Haider pushed his borders throughout the decade ...

November 4, 2023 - Learn about the British Rule in India and British Raj. Also, Know more about the Rise of British Power in India, the Rule of the Crown & the Impact of British Rule.

1 week ago - India - Ancient, Mughal, British: The Indian subcontinent, the great landmass of South Asia, is the home of one of the world’s oldest and most influential civilizations. In this article, the subcontinent, which for historical purposes is usually called simply “India,” is understood to ...

December 3, 2019 - The famous Kohinoor diamond has been doing rounds in the news. It was a prized possession of pre-colonial India which the British took with them on their way back home. However, it forms a very small fraction of what our colonizers took away. As a consequence, our country was in a grim state ...