When Queen Elizabeth II acceded to the throne in 1952, the British Empire had recently lost the proverbial "Jewel in the Crown," India, and the subcontinent was still reeling from the bloodshed of ...

09/09/2022 September 9, 2022. In spite of their difficult colonial past, India and Pakistan had a cordial relationship with Queen Elizabeth II. She is seen as a monarch who pursued the policy of ...

The scope of the work is enormous. The premise is that as recently as 1928, 12 modern nations - India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, ...

The Manchester Museum in England was founded at the pinnacle of the British Empire. Now it is embracing the city’s South Asian population and reassessing the colonial past.

British Rule Although Europeans were present in South Asia as traders from the beginning of the seventeenth century, ... and India were formed out of the British empire in India; Nepal was never ...

Elizabeth II did not found the British empire. Nor did she preside over its extension to Southern Africa. It was her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria , who did so.

An excerpt from ‘South Asia, the British Empire, and the Rise of Classical Legal Thought: Toward a Historical Ontology of the Law’, by Faisal Chaudhry.

Those lessons beckon today for Britain, and America, too. In the end, the empire — “the red on the map” — was a symbol, not the basis, of British influence. The home islands themselves, it could be ...

The Kohinoor, which means “Mountain of Light,” was originally about 186 carats, and while its exact origins are unknown, it was most likely discovered in South India in the 13th century ...

Learn about British history, including what the British Empire was and when it ended in this Bitesize KS3 history guide.

“The sun never sets on the British empire.” Variations on the phrase have been used for more than 200 years to describe the scope and power of the nation and its occupied territories.