British empire
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Nom-dom status and other imperial policies that still influence life in Britain today
Hunter Harris, The Conversation
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Interview: Priya Satia on the ‘earnestly deliberate hypocrisy’ of the British Empire
Rohan Venkataramakrishnan
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When the British asked the French to jail Madame Cama, the ‘mother of Indian revolution’
John O’Brien
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In the 1830s, children from orphan asylums in Madras were sent to New South Wales
Margaret Makepeace
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In 1830s Persia, ill-considered favours by a British official put his successor in a tight spot
Curstaidh Reid
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Britain’s fixation with Suez Canal was as much about controlling Egypt as it was about global trade
Jonathan Parry, The Conversation
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Before Suez Canal, the British had considered another trade route to Asia
Matt Griffin
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This ambitious history of the British Empire touches on everything from the Mahabharata to Marx
Kim A Wagner
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Politics, revelry and massacres: East India Company logs reveal what happened on trade ships
Susannah Gillard
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Did Indigenous Canadians help Indian immigrants aboard the Komagata Maru in 1914?
Ali Kazimi, The Conversation
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New soil study confirms 1943 Bengal famine was caused by Winston Churchill’s policies, not drought
Scroll Staff
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UN has called out shameful British colonialism by urging it to return Chagos Islands to Mauritius
Miriam Bak McKenna, The Conversation
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Why England should stop whitewashing its colonial past in its school history curriculum
Deana Heath, The Conversation
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Photos: When a British intelligence officer documented his 1906 trip to the Persian Gulf and Iraq
Louis Allday
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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