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The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

65,000 Died of Hunger in Madras While Lord Lytton Threw India the Grandest Party It Had Ever Seen

The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

After 1857, a British General Forced Condemned Men to Clean Blood Off a Floor Under the Lash, Then Hanged Them. He Was Not the Worst of It.

The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

In 1903 the Raj Taxed Tea Exports to Help Pay for Selling Tea to Indians. In 1930 More Than 90 Percent of the Crop Still Left the Country.

The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

The Empire Taught India to Take Exams. India Never Stopped.

The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

The Beautiful Tree: India's Village Schools Before the British, and the Debate Gandhi Lost

The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

The Man Who Wrote India's History Without Ever Seeing It

The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

The Wooden Tiger in London That Eats a British Soldier

The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

320,000 Tons of Wheat Sailed Out of India While the Deccan Starved

The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

The Divide That Was Designed: How Colonial Bureaucracy Turned Faith Into a Fault Line

The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

A 2,300-Mile Hedge Across India, Grown to Guard a Tax on Salt

The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

A Million Indians Signed a Contract They Called Girmit

The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

Ten Minutes in a Walled Garden: The Massacre That Ended India's Faith in the Empire

The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

A Million Indian Farmers Grew the Opium Britain Sold to China

The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

"But Britain Gave India the Railways," and Made India Pay for Them Twice

The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

They Took the World's Most Famous Diamond From a Ten-Year-Old, and Still Won't Give It Back

The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

Three Million Died in a Land That Had Enough Food: The Bengal Famine of 1943

The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

Macaulay's Children: The Colonial Plan to Rewire a Civilisation's Mind

The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

They Called It Woven Air. Then Britain Made Sure No One Could Weave It Again.

The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

Up to Fourteen Million People Crossed the Radcliffe Line in 1947, a Border Drawn in Five Weeks as India and Pakistan Became Independent

Britain's Oldest Warship Still Afloat Was Built in Bombay. The Industry Behind It Was Left to Die

The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

Britain Won Bengal With 22 Men Dead. The Battle Was Bought Before It Was Fought.

The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

India Was a Quarter of the World Economy. Two Centuries of British Rule Left It at 3%.

The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

The 'Rockets' Red Glare' in America's Anthem Was an Indian Weapon

Ancient & Medieval India

The Legendary Blades of Damascus Were Forged From Indian Steel. Then the Furnaces Went Cold