The EIC, now under "new management" seeks to add India to its "Age of Reform". Scrubbing away the last vestiges of the Mughal Empire and paving the way for "British Civilization".

Grade Level Therefore, the student is able to: 5-12 Explain the advance of British power in India up to 1850 and appraise the efforts of Indians to resist European conquest and achieve cultural ...

but had actually converted to Islam and had became a double agent working against the East India Company and for the Hyderabadis. Beneath the familiar story of the British conquest and rule of the ...

The East India Company was started by merchants close merchantA person involved in buying and selling items, usually between different countries. In the British Empire, this was done using a lot ...

But the partition of British India into the new nations by a line drawn by a civil servant on a map, triggered a series of events the consequences of which millions are still living with today.

Excerpted with permission from India’s First Radicals: Young Bengal and the British Empire, Rosinka Chaudhuri, Penguin Random House India.

Trace the Mughal conquest of India. Review the basic tenets of Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Islam, Jainism, and Christianity. Understand Akbar's vision of a universal religion. Using new weaponry ...