To the British, India served as the jewel of the British Empire. The coffers of Britain overflowed with wealth extracted from the subcontinent. The initial acquisition of India under the British ...

Many British and Indian civilians were also killed in ... reasons some historians say the colony became known as the ‘jewel in the crown’. Imports such as silk and cotton were brought from ...

In 1947, Guy returns to India on the eve of independence to observe the last days of the British rule. He discovers that Merrick had married Susan but was subsequently killed.

This last episode tells how a foreign multinational (the East India Company ... "Mutiny" the British state took over and turned this supremacy into the Raj, the jewel in the crown of the greatest ...