Three years before the Great War, Rudyard Kipling recalled how one English king simply paid his bullying neighbours to stay at home.

Jack Pansay has just bought an engagement ring for the bewitching Kitty Mannering, yet to his annoyance it is the late Mrs Wessington he is thinking about.

Two former soldiers in India find British bureaucracy cramps their style, so they set off to become kings of their own land.

After the devastation of the Great War, calls rose for a new economic and social system, and to put the wisdom of our forebears behind us.

In all his years of soldiering at home and abroad, Major-General George Younghusband had never heard British soldiers talk like those in Kipling’s tales.

If officials in the Raj ever forgot who their boss was, they would bring the whole government down about their ears.