During the Indian Mutiny, over a thousand men, women and children were trapped in the Commissioner’s residence at Lucknow.

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.

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

The Princely State of Mysore (today in Karnataka) was hailed as an example of good governance to all the world.

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