Her chilling exposé of violence in the British Empire, from the expansion of the East India Company in eighteenth-century India to the brutal suppression of the Mau Mau uprising in twentieth-century ...

Discover 5 legendary Indian forts that the British Empire never conquered. From Janjira to Kumbhalgarh, these strongholds ...

to obtain supplies of many important minerals at a rate sufficiently cheap to ensure industrial expansion, or even to maintain industries at their present level of prosperity. The importance of ...

So it was also with South Asia. In 1946, Sir Francis Tucker, the head of Eastern Command, proposed a British protectorate ...

The empire on which the sun never sets' is the most famous description of the British Empire — even though the phrase was invented to describe the sprawling reach of Spain's territory in the ...

Every year, the Queen honors hundreds of citizens with the Order of the British Empire. (A 2004 parliamentary committee recommended changing the name to the Order of British Excellence ...

At the height of the British Empire, just after the First World War, an island smaller than Kansas controlled roughly a quarter of the world’s population and landmass. To the architects of this ...

The sun will quite literally set on the British Empire for the first time in 200 years. The UK government confirmed yesterday they are handing over its control of the Chagos Islands in the Indian ...