The British in India

General Sites:

• Indian History Sourcebook 

• Imperialism - India: A Case Study 

• British Empire: An Introduction 

• Disraeli's Imperial Policies 

• Why did the British Empire expand so rapidly between 1870 and 1900?

• India: An Introduction

• The Idea of Just Rule

• The British in India
• Background Information on the British in India

India before the Sepoy Mutiny

• British Conquest of India

• Robert Clive (1725-1774):: The Battle of Plassey, 1757

• Robert Clive (1725-1774): Speech in Commons on India,   1772 

• India: Regulating Act, 1773  

• Edmund Burke (1729-1797): Speech in Commons on India, 1783

• Raja Rammohan Roy: A Second Conference Between an Advocate for, and An Opponent of the Practice of Burning Widows Alive, 1820 
• Sir William Bentinck (1774-1839): On Ritual Murder in India , 1829, excerpts Bentinck was first Governor-General of India, in 1833.
• Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859): On Empire and Education, 1830s,  
• Mountstuart Elphinstone: Indian Customs and Manners, 1840 Includes graphic account of suttee.

• Sir Monier Monier-Williams: Camp Life in India, 1850

India in Victorian literature

• Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone
• Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South
• Rudyard Kipling's works on India

British East India Company

• The East India Company 

• The East India Company: History

• Three Phases of Colonial Administration

Sepoy Mutiny 

• The 1857 Indian Mutiny

• Charles Creighton Hazewell: British India, The Atlantic Monthly, November 1857

• Charles Creighton Hazewell: The Indian Revolt, The Atlantic Monthly, December 1857
• Elisa Greathed: An Account of the Opening of the Indian Mutiny at Meerut, 1857 
• Robert Traill Spence Lowell: The Relief of Lucknow  
• Field Marshal Lord Roberts: When Queen Victoria Became Empress of India, 1877 
• Sir Monier-Williams: The Towers of Silence, 1870 The Parsee's in Bombay.
• Dadabhai Naoroji: The Benefits of British Rule, 1871 
• Rev. Arthur Male: The Hill of Bones, Afghanistan 1878
• Indian Anti-colonialism