Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, the 11th and last King of Awadh, was an enthusiastic patron of dance and music, but also allegedly a ...

The East India Company was started by merchants close merchantA person involved in buying and selling items, usually between different countries. In the British Empire, this was done using a lot ...

He is also known for financing the British East India Company. From 1617 to 1670, Vora was a key financier for the East India Company, lending money to British traders looking to start their ...

The initial acquisition of India under the British East India Company and the ongoing domination under the British Raj of a population many times the size of the occupying force proved to be a ...

The birth of journalism in India began with the Bengal Gazette, which was the first newspaper of India, starting publication on January 29, 1780 from printing office at No. 67, Radha Bazar, written in ...

This little nugget of history is on display at a travelling exhibition in Delhi that captures the complicated history of Irish people who served the British empire in India.“When I am not an Indian, I ...

The British Parliament then passed the Tea Act, which granted the British East India Company a monopoly to sell tea in the American colonies. Protests throughout Boston were swift and intense.

Recent Oxfam report highlights that multinational companies now use wealth-grabbing mechanisms developed by entities like East India Company to steal fortune from the global South ...