India

Latha Menon deplores the effects of religious extremism on Indian society and the writing of history.

Historian and magician Peter Lamont considers what can be learned by studying the history of a famous conjuring trick – or con trick?

Anubha Charan describes the arguments surrounding one of the world’s most politically explosive excavations.

The East India Company's army led by Arthur Wellesley defeated the Mahrattas at the Battle of Assaye on September 23rd, 1803.

Mary Ann Steggles recalls the circumstances of the many monuments to Queen Victoria that were erected in India, and traces their fate.

Huw V. Bowen asks whether the East India Company was one of the ‘most powerful engines’ of state and empire in British history.

Lucy Chester examines the processes by which the Indo-Pakistan border was drawn, dividing a single country into two.

The Indian ruler and resister of the East India Company was killed by the British on 4 May 1799.

The formal handover took place on January 6th, 1899.