The empire grew to rule over 400 million people ... India was directly ruled by Britain, and known as the British Raj. The British Raj had a big impact on the lives of people in both India ...

It's arguable that India, as we understand it, now didn't exist until the period known as the British Raj, when it was subjected to colonial rule. For most of the last 2,500 years, it was ...

The initial acquisition of India under the British East India Company and the ongoing domination under the British Raj of a population ... and economy under British rule. 7-12 Explain the social ...

The Trial That Shook Britain by Ashis Ray establishes with documentary evidence that a trial of three former officers of the ...

A decade has passed since the struggle of the Indian subcontinent to free itself from British ... of the British Raj, allegedly following the old Roman maxim of "divide and rule." ...

The gap between India’s rich and poor is now so wide that by some measures, the distribution of income in India was more equitable under British colonial rule than it is now, according to the ...

See the clip below. The British Government ruled India as a colony from 1858 until 1947, establishing the "Raj" ("rule") over the region. Queen Victoria took over rule of India from the East ...

Aurangzeb Alamgir, the sixth Mughal Emperor (r. 1658–1707), is often remembered for his controversial policies, which have ...

This was the first of several famines to hit India during British rule throughout the 1700s and 1800s. From 1757, the East India Company began to control the government, economy and education ...