Sir William Hunter looks back over a Government committee’s plan to introduce tea cultivation to India in 1834.

Adam Smith argued that the Bengal Famine of 1769 would have been much less of a tragedy under a free trade policy.

Robert Clive turned seven hundred frightened recruits into crack troops by sheer force of personality.

In 1840, the British Government declared war on the Chinese Empire over their harsh treatment of drug smugglers from Bengal.

The Maharaja of Jodhpur called on his subjects to do their bit and stop the Nazis.

After the East India Company quieted the Maratha Confederacy in 1805, Harsukh Rai looked forward to a new era of good government.