The Jewel in the Crown. The British civil servants who ran India were enthralled with their domain and detached from it. March 25, 2006 More than ...

If India was the jewel in the British crown, why were so few Britons actually here? Millions of Britons began new lives overseas. Barely 155,000 moved to India.

The East India Company, acting for the British Crown, emerged victorious and had the 10-year-old Maharaja present the jewel to Queen Victoria under the Treaty of Lahore.

THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN is a study of British culture abroad, capturing two distinct class systems — British and Indian. The miniseries features a stellar cast that includes Dame Peggy Ashcroft ...

The Viceroy’s House stands as the centrepiece of New Delhi, but also serves as an emblem of the British and Indian relationship. Jonathan Glancey looks back.

A century after the Delhi Durbar, India is shining, continuing the best ideals of the British Empire. Andrew Roberts writes an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal.

On August 24, 1690, after a lavish offering at an old temple of Kali, Job Charnock, the founder of Calcutta, pitched his tents on the banks of the Hooghly, exactly on the site of charred ruins of ...

One of the world's largest diamonds, the 105-carat Koh-i-Noor has been part of the British crown jewels for 150 years and today forms part of the crown worn by the late mother of Queen Elizabeth.