Under Clive, the East India Company built up its private army to 260,000 soldiers, double the size of the British Army, and became ‘too big to fail’. Again, the modern parallels are ominous.

In the British Empire, this was done using a ... By 1857, the sepoys in the East India Company’s army began a rebellion after a rumour spread about a new rifle they would be receiving.

Vijay Durg is a tribute to the Indian army’s finest military victory in post-Independent India in 1971 that Fort ...

The initial acquisition of India under the British East India Company and the ongoing domination under the British Raj of a population many times the size of the occupying force proved to be a ...

T he Indian Army traces its origins to the armies of the East India Company, which later evolved into the British Indian Army and the armies of the Princely States. After India gained independence ...

The British East India Company came as traders and became rulers and administrators, had influenced the economic and political systems of the country. During British rule, colonial India followed ...