Woman with a spinning wheel in British India, c. 1870, Silver gelatin print. Image courtesy of Leiden University Libraries, Netherlands Swadeshi Clouds, Kishan Duriseti, 2008, Watercolour on paper.

Arrival of the British and the establishment of East India Company was the outcome of the Portuguese traders who earn enormous profit by selling their merchandise in India.The East India Company ...

The rupee, being the official currency of India, is not just an exchange medium but a symbol of the nation's independence and growth. ... The British East India Company adopted this in 1671, ...

British East India Company; Great Rebellion of 1857 (video resource) British Raj (video resource) The White Man's Burden Poem (external resource) The Black Man's Burden (external resource) ...

The colonial roots of Partition. Partition’s roots date back to the 17th century, when the British East India Company, a private company that traded in Indian riches like spices and silks, began ...

The British East India Company was founded by royal charter in 1600 as a joint stock trading company and ... went out of his way to secure Koh-i-Noor for the British crown, as a symbol of imperial ...

The arrival of the British East India Company in the early 1600s marked the beginning of systematic exploitation. ... Khadi, the handspun cloth, became a symbol of self-reliance and defiance.

250 years ago, colonists dumped tens of thousands of pounds of British tea into Boston harbor in an act of defiance of British rule that helped catalyze the American Revolution.

The British East India Company initially established its presence in India as a trading entity. However, as it gained territorial control, the need for a structured legal system became apparent.

The Lahore Diamond became "property of the state" when the East India Company usurped Fort Lahore in modern-day Pakistan in 1849. Queen Elizabeth II after her Coronation in 1953. Bettmann ...