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No era is more important to focusing on how present-day India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh progressed than the almost 200 years of British rule. This colonial period was a period of profound change and transformation - for India and then for the world. These 24 engrossing lectures give you new perspectives on the annals of Western european imperialism, on world economical background, on the top features of British isles colonialism, and on the wealthy cultures of the Indian subcontinent. Over the course of this impressive saga you'll explore:

• How the British East India Company, a commercial trading entity, founded a occurrence in India and required the reins of power in one of the strangest politics transformations in world background
• How the monumental Mughal Empire, builders of the Taj Mahal and longstanding Muslim rulers in India, gradually came apart in the face of British isles conquest
• How Britain lengthened its rule over the subcontinent, built an enormous economical machine in India, and ultimately exacted much price from the Indian people
• How India finally achieved independence in 1947, through one of humanity's most noteworthy examples of resourceful and philosophically complex leadership

You'll track the economical motives that helped bring the British isles and other Westerners to India, like how the emergence of the British as a stereotypically tea-drinking society was directly related to the Indian colonial economy. You will also take stock of the amazingly lavish standards of living of India's maharajahs and how the British isles leveraged alliances with them. And you'll grasp the essential moral contradiction of the Raj, the discord between Britain's economical interests and the individual needs of the empire's Indian things, plus more. In A History of British isles India, you'll relive a crucial era in international relations, one with profound and sustained implications for our modern-day world.