The British in India: a social history of 350 years of colonisation – book review

The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience by David Gilmour Allen Lane 3 stars On September 24, 1599, while William Shakespeare was mulling over a draft of Hamlet in his house downriver from the Globe theatre in Southwark, south London, a few kilometres to the north a motley group of Londoners were gathering in a half-timbered Tudor hall. The men had come together to petition the ageing Queen Elizabeth I, then a bewigged and painted sexagenarian, to start up a company...

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