The turning point came in 1756, when 123 British and allied Indian prisoners of war were massacred in the notorious Black Hole of Calcutta. From then on, the East India Company used increasingly ...

Prince, a former U.S. Navy SEAL officer, founded Blackwater ... as well as the settlement of Cape Town by the Dutch East India Company and the British East India Company. “It involved slaving ...

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The crown of Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal emperor, and two throne chairs are part of the Royal Collection in London. These items were acquired after the Indian Mutiny of 1857 and symbolize the ...

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Brits have been drinking tea for over 350 years, but the drink has been around a lot longer, and its origins are far from the British Isles ... the East India Company began to import tea to ...

Following this failure of governance, the British state formally took over the East India Company's rule in India. The Company lost all its administrative powers following the Government of India Act ...

How the bold, hopeful visions of self-determination in Britain’s eastern colonies curdled into a more militant nationalism by the end of the second world war.

MANILA, Philippines — UK-based investment house Actis has completed its $600-million “super deal” with tycoon Manuel V. Pangilinan’s Meralco Group, formalizing its entry into MTerra Solar ...