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Mir Kasim Clay Lane

The East India Company installed Mir Kasim as Nawab of Bengal, only to find that he had a mind of his own.

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One Man Army Edward Fraser

The fort at Budge Budge near Calcutta proved stubborn against the massed artillery of the East India Company, but a tipsy seaman took it all by himself.

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Press Agents William Thomas Stead

When Lord Salisbury asked the Russian Minister of the Interior how many agents the Tsar had in India, the reply came as a shock.

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Progressive Travancore S. Ramanath Aiyar

Contemporary historian Ramanath Aiyar catalogued the ways in which Maharajah Moolam Thurunal led the way in modernising British India.

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Ranji Clay Lane

A young Indian student from Cambridge was selected for England’s cricket team after public pressure.

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Shivaji and the Battle of Surat Clay Lane

Charles II was thinking about handing Bombay back to the Portuguese, when an Indian rebel stepped in.

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