For a millennium and a half, India was a confident exporter of its
diverse civilization, creating around it a vast empire of ideas. Indian
art, religions, technology, astronomy, music, dance, literature,
mathematics and mythology blazed a trail across the world, along a
Golden Road that stre..
ایسٹ انڈیا کمپنی نے ایشیا کے بڑے حصے پر کس طرح قبضہ کیا، اور ایک ملک چلانے والی کارپوریشن کے تباہ کن نتائج کی کہانی۔
اگست 1765 میں ایسٹ انڈیا کمپنی نے نوجوان مغل بادشاہ کو شکست دی اور اس کی جگہ انگریز تاجروں کے زیر انتظام ایک حکومت قائم کی جو نجی فوج کے ذریعے ٹیکس وصول کرتے تھے۔
اس نئی حکو..
In
this evocative study of the fall of the Mughal Empire and the beginning
of the Raj, award-winning historian William Dalrymple uses previously
undiscovered sources to investigate a pivotal moment in history.The
last Mughal emperor, Zafar, came to the throne when the political power
of th..
The first comprehensive
and authoritative history of the Koh-i Noor, arguably the most
celebrated and mythologised jewel in the world. On 29 March
1849, the ten-year-old Maharajah of the Punjab was ushered into the
magnificent Mirrored Hall at the centre of the great Fort in Lahore.
There,..
The story of how the East India Company took
over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results of the
corporation running a country.In August 1765, the East India
Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and set up, in his place, a
government run by English traders who collected taxes ..