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"To fly to India for gold" : early contacts, 1583-1615
"Infamous for their honest endeavours" : laying foundations, 1615-1708
Conquest and corruption : the struggle for supremacy, 1708-1815
"The great ends we have in view" : the East India Company as paramount power, 1815-1857
"The devil's wind" : the Great Indian Uprising, or mutiny, of 1857-1858
Lords of all they surveyed? : the Raj at its zenith, 1858-1905
The beginning of the end? : reform and conflict, 1905-1919
Gandhi and the fightback of Indian nationalism, 1919-1939
"Engine of war" or the enemy within? : India, 1939-1945
"Tryst with destiny" : freedom and partition, 1945-1947.
"Infamous for their honest endeavours" : laying foundations, 1615-1708
Conquest and corruption : the struggle for supremacy, 1708-1815
"The great ends we have in view" : the East India Company as paramount power, 1815-1857
"The devil's wind" : the Great Indian Uprising, or mutiny, of 1857-1858
Lords of all they surveyed? : the Raj at its zenith, 1858-1905
The beginning of the end? : reform and conflict, 1905-1919
Gandhi and the fightback of Indian nationalism, 1919-1939
"Engine of war" or the enemy within? : India, 1939-1945
"Tryst with destiny" : freedom and partition, 1945-1947.