The opening of the Bombay to Thane line was the real beginning of British India.

A young Indian student from Cambridge was selected for England’s cricket team after public pressure.

The future hero of Waterloo dealt with political ambush as comfortably as he dealt with the military kind.

Queen Victoria assured her subjects that there were no second-class citizens in her eyes.

Abdul Karim’s rapid rise in Victoria’s household made him enemies.

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