British empire
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The 1915 Ghadar plan to free India from the British was a failure – but it sparked a revolution
Haroon Khalid
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Does the Commonwealth still mean anything significant to Great Britain (or to its member countries)?
Philip Murphy
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Photos: A collection shows rare maps that helped colonising countries understand India’s geography
Maria Thomas, qz.com
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‘Let no-one grudge...to pay tax’: Why did a Bengali boy sing praises of Income Tax in British India?
Lesley Shapland
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British empire’s hidden workings in India and Iran revealed in remarkable film footage
Jonathan Westaway, The Conversation
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Empire of ethics: Studying UK’s colonial past through an ethical lens legitimises a slippery slope
Arjun Appadurai
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How the prince of Surat convinced England to give him justice against the East India Company
Moin Mir
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Why India should not bother to ask Britain to apologise for Jallianwalla Bagh
Anjali Mody
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Video: The tribal leader who spooked the British empire before Subhash Chandra Bose and Bhagat Singh
Shone Satheesh
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Tipu Jayanti debate: Akbar is the hero India should really celebrate
Girish Shahane
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As the US debates Confederate statues, a powerful lesson from Delhi – let them rot
J Daniel Elam
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Civil Services Day: Is India’s steel frame really rusted?
CK Mathew
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How the British Raj in India brightened the palette of artist JMW Turner
Mridula Chari
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Emotional worlds: Letters Indian soldiers sent home during World War II
Diya Gupta
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The British tried to thwart a Danish explorer's journey to Arabia in 1912 – but ended up helping him
Martin Woodward
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When British Merchant Navy housed Indian seamen in overcrowded and filthy lodgings
John O'Brian
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The story of an ayah from Raj-era India who was abandoned at London's King's Cross station with £1
Penny Brook and Margaret Makepeace
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It makes for a good story, but the cover-up of Britain’s treatment of the Mau Mau was exaggerated
Philip Murphy, The Conversation
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A glimpse into the life of an East India Company official posted in Sindh during British rule
Tom Sharrad
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British Empire’s forgotten propaganda tool for ‘primitive peoples’: mobile cinema
Tom Rice, The Conversation