The map has just about every empire represented ... as the strongest contenders to the seat of power in south India. Soon, however, British ascendancy was challenged by Hyder Ali, the de facto ...

I always knew of his connection to Kenya, but it wasn’t until the elders died that I learned of his role in suppressing the ...

The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as the Amritsar massacre, occurred when the British Indian army fired on civilians ...

The Total War series is not just a strategy game, it is a hybrid beast with two heads. One is strategic, turn-based: on a ...

This relentless spirit of enterprise transformed India into an economic powerhouse, so vital that it became the "crown jewel" of the British Empire. India’s history ... reclaiming its place on the ...

In 1971, he travelled to Pakistan on his newly obtained British passport ... the world diplomatic map. What would the UK do if PM Keir Starmer or one of his ministerial colleagues were to be attacked ...

After this, he is seen in the court wearing a lawyer's uniform, where he cusses the British Empire and its judges for reminding them that India was then the slave of the crown. As Akshay leaves ...

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.

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Excerpted with permission from India’s First Radicals: Young Bengal and the British Empire, Rosinka Chaudhuri, Penguin Random House India.