The Copybook: Readings in history and literature

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The Tea Committee by Sir William Wilson Hunter

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

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A Dream of Independence by John Bright

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.

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Shivaji and the Battle of Surat by Clay Lane

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

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Peasie and Beansie by Clay Lane

Peasie wants to visit her lonely father, but she can’t get her sister Beansie to come along with her.

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By Raja Ravi Varma (1848-1906), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.

Two Queens of Travancore by Clay Lane

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

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By John Leech (1817–1864), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.

Cupid’s Arrow by Rudyard Kipling

Kitty Beighton enters an archery contest where the prize is one very beautiful bracelet and one very ugly Commissioner.

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