Indian subcontinent
An Indian Affair
The hidden origins of Britain's relationship with India from the 17th century to the religious zealotry and imperial ideology that was the Raj. This website places the interaction into the context of trade and politics and shows the myriad ways that India has suffused the English lifestyle.
- Ancient Surgery
Surgery is not a modern phenomenon but has its roots in the ancient world. Developments in India, Egypt, Greece and Rome many centuries ago meant that operations that are common now were also performed then. - Combatant states: India
Facts and figures from the First World War. - Empire
An extract from Professor Niall Ferguson's revisionist history of Britain and its colonies. - Empire's Children
Trace and tell your family's empire stories. Stories, histories, research guides, videos. - Going
Critical: Bhopal
The Bhopal gas disaster of 1984, when a toxic cloud from an American chemical plant killed and injured thousands of Indians, and the science behind what went wrong. - Mahatma Gandhi
Indian national and spiritual leader who preached non-violence but was killed by an assassin. - Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Muslim leader who pressed for partition but died just after Pakistani independence. - Origination
Brings together the wealth of web resources that record and celebrate the contributions of immigrant cultures to British history. - Pandit Nehru
Independent India’s first prime minister, who established a political dynasty. - Public and Private Tragedies: Voices of the Indian Mutiny
Historian William Dalrymple describes the discovery of previously unknown eyewitness accounts of the crisis, and draws startling parallels between the dying Mughal world and our own. - Race in the 20th Century
This C4 Learning website explores the representations of empire and immigration in Britain and civil rights in the United States. - Tit for tat
Acts of vengeance and their consequences – including such ‘triggers’ as the murder of Genghis Khan’s envoys in 1218, the murder of the Israeli athletes in Munich in 1972 and the storming of the Golden Temple of Amritsar in 1984, as well as other examples of retribution from Japan, Czechoslovakia and Korea. - The War of the World
According to historian Niall Ferguson, from the Russo-Japanese war of 1904/5 to the aftershocks of the Cold War, the 20th century was by far the bloodiest in history. In this website, Ferguson explains why this came about, and there is an extensive chronology of the events that made this the ‘age of hatred’.
