The Imperial Crown of India was made especially for King George V's 1911 visit to India. Back then, India was still under the rule of the British Empire, and George wanted to be crowned as Emperor ...

To the British, India served as the jewel of the British Empire. The coffers of Britain overflowed with wealth extracted from the subcontinent. The initial acquisition of India under the British ...

The East India Company was started by merchants close merchantA person involved in buying and selling items, usually between different countries. In the British ... the ‘jewel in the crown’.

British statesmen never tire of boasting of "our Indian Empire," and of speaking of India as "the brightest jewel in the British crown." Do they reflect that it is virtually a slave empire of ...

This last episode tells how a foreign multinational (the East India ... the British state took over and turned this supremacy into the Raj, the jewel in the crown of the greatest empire the ...

In 1947, Guy returns to India on the eve of independence to observe the last days of the British rule. He discovers that Merrick had married Susan but was subsequently killed.

These objects serve as poignant reminders of the end of the Mughal Empire and the beginning of British colonial rule in India. Despite the historical value of the crown and chairs, Major Tytler ...

a fissure was cleaved in what some had previously referred to as the jewel in the crown of the British empire. The 75th anniversary of the moment when India, Pakistan and what later became ...