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

In 1877, John Bright told a meeting of the Manchester India Association that he had wanted to put India on the path to independence nearly twenty years before.

Charles II was thinking about handing Bombay back to the Portuguese, when an Indian rebel stepped in.

Lakshmi and her sister Parvati enlisted the help of the British Resident, Colonel Munro, to steady the Kingdom of Travancore.

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

When Lord Salisbury asked the Russian Minister of the Interior how many agents the Tsar had in India, the reply came as a shock.