"With their victory at Plassey (see “Seven Years War”), the British (in the form of the East India Company) ended up r…"

"The next year Malik Muhammad Bakhtiyar started from Behar, and with a small force reached the city of Nudiar by succe…"

"…In the second year after this arrangement Muhammad Bakhtyar brought an army from Behar towards Lakhnauti and arrived…"

"Cholera swept through the starving refugees. A Western doctor described one camp: “Millions of flies were permitted u…"

"In spite of the worldwide population explosion that characterized the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the populat…"

"By 1892, a quarter of India’s total government revenue went to maintain the burden of the government itself: supporti…"

"One witness described a child of five he found among starving peasants: “Its arms were not so large around as my thum…"

"A missionary described a Muslim farmer who sold his land, then his house, then his cooking utensils to buy food for h…"

"Let’s jump ahead a hundred years to a time when the whole of India had been brought under British control, and the Ea…"

"...The guiding philosophy at the time was that relief should be difficult to obtain in order to discourage the poor f…"