James Talboys Wheeler, a historian who served the Government of India, traces British power in India from the first trading factories of the East India Company through the conquest of Bengal, the imperial expansion under Wellesley, the Sikh wars, the Mutiny of 1857 and government under the Crown. He writes as a confident defender of British rule, and his judgments reflect it.
A Victorian official history, valuable as a record of how the Raj saw its own story. Download the free EPUB.