Two former soldiers in India find British bureaucracy
cramps their style, so they set off to become kings of their own land.
byRudyard Kipling1865-1936
Indian History
The Moth Versus the Fire
After its prime minister signed the Maratha Confederacy over
to the East India Company, the member states rose up in a body.
byHarsukh Raifl. 1799-1805
Indian History
One Man Army
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.
byEdward Fraser1908
Indian History
Seeds of Empire
The British Empire may be said to have started when Elizabethan
importers got into a fight with the Dutch over the price of pepper.
byHenrietta Elizabeth Marshall1867-1941
Indian History
The Siege of Arcot
Twenty-five-year-old Robert Clive’s extraordinary daring helped to
prevent India falling into the hands of the French King.
byThomas Babington Macaulay1800-1859
William H. Sleeman
A Tale of Three Rivers
The Rivers Son and Narmada rise together in the hills of Amarkantak, but because of Johilla they never meet again.