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At the Emperor’s request, he was left at Court to advise on political and financial negotiations with His Majesty

Friday, April 28th, 2023

Around 600 well-trained Company civil servants, guarded by 155,000 Indian sepoys, were to administer most of peninsular India

Wednesday, April 26th, 2023

The next fifty years would be remembered as ‘the Golden Calm’

Monday, April 24th, 2023

Damn your writing! Mind your fighting!

Saturday, April 22nd, 2023

All agree that the battle was the fiercest that has ever been seen in India

Thursday, April 20th, 2023

The Permanent Settlement, introduced in 1793, gave absolute rights to land to zamindar landowners

Tuesday, April 18th, 2023

Cornwallis’s mission was now to make sure that the same never happened in India

Sunday, April 16th, 2023

So began what the Maratha newswriter described as a ‘dance of the demons’

Friday, April 14th, 2023

The Mirza’s army was joined by a very different class of soldiers

Wednesday, April 12th, 2023

A diamond-studded substitute was attached in its place

Monday, April 10th, 2023

The Boston Tea Party was provoked by fears that the East India Company might be let loose on the thirteen colonies

Saturday, April 8th, 2023

A single day’s delay would have allowed the two armies to unite

Thursday, April 6th, 2023

Hastings, ever the gentleman, decided to let Francis fire first

Tuesday, April 4th, 2023

Clive walked out of the drawing room ‘to visit the water closet’

Sunday, April 2nd, 2023

Nearly seven feet tall, with oiled moustaches that projected from his face like a pair of outstretched eagle’s wings, he was a man of immense physical strength

Thursday, March 30th, 2023