Formally, the British Indian empire existed for ninety years (1858–1947). The empire consisted of large parts of most of the countries in South Asia and briefly included Burma as well. In area and population, British India was the largest colony...

Sahib: The British Soldier in India. Richard Holmes. HarperCollins. [pounds sterling]20.00. xxxiii + 572 pages. ISBN 0-00-713753-2. It was, writes Richard Holmes, undeniably a bloody business. The British conquest of India, Burma and Ceylon took a dozen substantial wars and many lesser...

By THOMAS TRAUTMANN. Berkeley and Los Angeles: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, 1997. Pp. 274. $35. At a time of academic orthodoxies such as deconstructionism, social constructivism, and "hegemonicmaniaism," it is refreshing to come across a book of history which simply seeks to...

President Gen. Pervez Musharraf on Friday told lawyers protesting his removal of Pakistan's top judge to stay out of politics, as critics and opponents seized on the growing judicial crisis to press for an end to his eight-year rule.In a speech for Pakistan Day, marked...

From 1640 until its independence in 1949, India was ruled by two periods of British imperialism, first through the British East India Company and later through direct control by the British government. These periods of imperialism resulted in many changes in Indian culture and economy that forever changed India's destiny. While the British implemented many changes that appeared to help the Indian natives, such changes were intended to help only the British colonists in India, and they left the natives wit