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

A tribute to the postal workers of British India, and to the kind of empire they helped to build.

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

As Viceroy of India, Lord Ripon was rather more popular with the people of India than he was with some of his own civil servants.

John Bright MP urged a critic of the British Raj to offer India more than fine words.

Georgian Britain braced for war as relations with France in North America, India and mainland Europe took a turn for the worse.