BRITISH ENTER INDIA In 1600, Queen Elizabeth I approved the creation of the East India Company, a powerful private trading company. The East India Company was started by merchants who wanted to trade in Asia to get spices, cotton and indigo dye and then sell them in England for profit. At first, they sailed to […]

ABDUL KARIM WITH QUEEN VICTORIA FRIEND SHIP  In the last years of Queen Victoria’s reign, the aging monarch developed a close bond with an Indian attendant called Abdul Karim. Unusual for the era, against all the social norms, the man who began life in the royal court as a servant rose to become one of