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 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.

Queen Elizabeth II 'represents the end of the British empire and the transition of former colonies into independent states' Deutsche Welle In spite of their difficult colonial past, India and Pakistan ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

The triumph of Humza Yousaf is just the latest reflection of how times have changed as people of South Asian descent occupy leadership roles in the British, Scottish and Irish parliaments.

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.