Two former soldiers in India find British bureaucracy cramps their style, so they set off to become kings of their own land.

After its prime minister signed the Maratha Confederacy over to the East India Company, the member states rose up in a body.

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.

The British Empire may be said to have started when Elizabethan importers got into a fight with the Dutch over the price of pepper.

Twenty-five-year-old Robert Clive’s extraordinary daring helped to prevent India falling into the hands of the French King.

The Rivers Son and Narmada rise together in the hills of Amarkantak, but because of Johilla they never meet again.