The East India Company: A History by Philip Lawson (London, 1993) Bengal: The British Bridgehead, Eastern India, 1740-1828 in The New Cambridge History of India, (vol. II, 2) by P J Marshall ...

W hen the British East India Company set sail to explore—and exploit—the riches of the world in the 1600s, it was based out of an unpretentious London house. How it grew from that to toppling ...

Here are some of India’s forgotten rebel royals—monarchs who refused to be erased. 1. Raja Chait Singh of Benares. I n the late 18th century, when the British East India Company was tightening ...

Rising over regional powers, deposing the Mughals and eliminating European competition, the East India Company deftly brought India under its power. In 1615, Sir Thomas Roe, an English emissary of ...

That was in 1816, when troops of the British East India Company discovered that despite losing the war, the Nepali Gurkhas had fought with exceptional valour and grit, worthy of recruitment in the ...

In 2003, King Charles inaugurated the shoot of Mangal Pandey: The Rising, a film based on the 1857 Indian revolt against the British East India Company. Directed by Ketan Mehta and starring Aamir ...

Teacher Notes. Pupils could use this short film to tackle an enquiry into why the East India Company was disbanded in 1858. They could be asked to look at its relations with the British government ...

Things improved slightly when the British ambassador Thomas Roe presented his credentials from King James I in 1615 to the Mughal ... Until 1857, when an open revolt – the “Indian Mutiny” – led to the ...

In 1639 AD, the East India Company obtained the lease of the city of Madras from the local king where it built Fort St. George to protect its factory. Later Madras was made the South Indian ...

Excerpted with permission from Empire Building: The Construction of British India 1690-1860, Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, Penguin India. We welcome your comments at [email protected] . east india company ...

The East India Company: A History by Philip Lawson (London, 1993) Bengal: The British Bridgehead, Eastern India, 1740-1828 in The New Cambridge History of India, (vol. II, 2) by P J Marshall ...