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 ...

The newspaper was named after its founder, James Augustus Hicky India's first newspaper, founded in 1780, held up a mirror to British rule in India. It can also teach us about how tyrants work and ...

Radcliffe later admitted that his team relied on out of date maps ... Before British rule, there was no difference with Hindus and Muslims, people believed we were all born in India and we were ...

However, another form of resistance emerged on the plateau of Jharkhand, where, even after British rule, the tribal population ... The British East India Company declared tribal lands its property ...