This was the first of several famines to hit India during British rule throughout the 1700s and 1800s. From 1757, the East India Company began to control the government, economy and education ...

The British East India Company came as traders and became rulers and administrators, had influenced the economic and political systems of the country. During British rule, colonial India followed ...

Pic: AP Meanwhile, the messy make-up of pre-Partition India led to ongoing rows over ... where he started out living in a one-bedroom flat. Before British rule, there was no difference with ...