India’s rich and complex history often shines a spotlight on empires and emperors—Ashoka, Akbar, Shivaji, Tipu Sultan—but ...

It was no longer acceptable for an East India Company servant to speak like or dress like an Indian. They had to now wear European dress and the army soon followed suit. European customs and ...

The East India Company and its early trading activities ... surrounding themselves with armies of servants, being carried from place to place in a palanquin. The pomposity and extravagance of ...