Politics, revelry and massacres: East India Company logs reveal what happened on trade ships

Susannah Gillard

· May 23, 2020 · 01:30 pm

Europe’s scramble for a lucrative spice market began in Southeast Asia, not India

Margaret Makepeace

· May 16, 2020 · 08:30 pm

We all know Siraj-ud-daulah lost the Battle of Plassey. How did he escape afterwards?

Sudeep Chakravarti

· Jan 21, 2020 · 07:30 am

Portugal gifted Bombay to Britain in 1661. So why did a Portuguese militia stay behind?

Hedley Sutton

· Oct 19, 2019 · 08:30 pm

How crystal chandeliers gifted to the Shah of Persia travelled from England to Bombay to Tehran

Lesley Shapland

· Oct 13, 2019 · 09:30 pm

The Weekend Fix: How India was conquered by a private corporation and ten other top reads

Shoaib Daniyal

· Sep 29, 2019 · 09:30 am

William Dalrymple’s book masterfully chronicles an early instance of corporate power over governance

M Saad

· Sep 28, 2019 · 06:30 am

A ledger gives a sense of how the East India Company was singed by the 1666 London fire

Margaret Makepeace

· Sep 11, 2019 · 07:30 pm

Why a 15th-century manuscript of Indian recipes lists eight kinds of samosas – none with potatoes

Aparna Kapadia

· Sep 09, 2019 · 07:30 am

William Dalrymple's new book shows corporate violence began in India with the East India Company

William Dalrymple

· Aug 26, 2019 · 08:30 am

Mayalee: The story of an Indian dancing girl who stood up to the British Raj

Katherine Butler Schofield

· Mar 31, 2019 · 09:30 pm

Hello from the other side: A map shows telephone connectivity in India in 1934

John O'Brien

· Mar 26, 2019 · 08:30 pm

The British tried growing Syrian tobacco in Bombay Presidency – but the plan went up in smoke

Karen Stapley

· Mar 03, 2019 · 08:30 pm

‘Richest jewel in British Crown’: When an official fought to recruit Irish men to East India Company

Margaret Makepeace

· Oct 08, 2018 · 09:30 pm

A typical day in the life of an East India Company director in the early 19th century

Margaret Makepeace

· Sep 24, 2018 · 01:30 pm

Dark history: How Indian opium traders from Bombay helped the British Raj wreck China’s economy

Girish Shahane

· Sep 13, 2018 · 08:00 am

Leave India after age of six: A surgeon’s child-care tips for British parents during colonial rule

Margaret Makepeace

· Sep 01, 2018 · 01:30 pm

When British officials sought pensions for select residents of Colaba after annexing the region

John O'Brien

· Aug 20, 2018 · 01:30 pm

When an East India Company official was gifted an elaborate candelabra from his ‘friends in Panjab’

Malini Roy

· Aug 15, 2018 · 11:30 pm

Hindostan was a prosperous part of Indiana in the 19th century. So why did it die suddenly?

Blake Smith

· Jul 29, 2018 · 11:30 am