Contemporary historian Ramanath Aiyar catalogued the ways in which Maharajah Moolam Thurunal led the way in modernising British India.
byS. Ramanath Aiyar
Indian History
Money Well Spent
Sir Bartle Frere, Governor of Bombay, welcomed the way that railway construction had taught Indian navvies to demand a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s labour.
bySir Bartle Frere1815-1884
Indian History
Engines of Progress
Sir Bartle Frere, Governor of Bombay, shared his excitement at the way railways were making Indians more independent.
bySir Bartle Frere1815-1884
Abolition of Slavery
Press Pass
Young inventor James Watt’s life in London was overshadowed by the perpetual fear of being snatched.
bySamuel Smiles1812-1904
Indian History
The Seven Years’ War
Georgian Britain braced for war as relations with France in North America, India and mainland Europe took a turn for the worse.
The First World War
The Avengers
John Buchan was moved by the way the nations of the British Empire volunteered for service in the Great War.