After two punishing years rising to the top of the East India Company’s armed forces in India, Robert Clive could not spare the time to go courting.

Samuel Smiles reminds us that until we brought the railways to India, we had little to boast about as an imperial power.

In 1585, English merchant Ralph Fitch found himself at the heart of Mughal India, as a guest at the court of Emperor Akbar the Great.

Oldham’s firebrand MP William Cobbett rips into the the City of London for blocking economic and political progress in India.

The British encountered no stouter resistance in India than Mysore’s gifted commmander Hyder Ali and his son, Tipu.

The opening of the Bombay to Thane line was the real beginning of British India.