India’s Colonial Story

The Story

Consequences of the Colonial Rule

Sepia-toned harbour with tall masted ships — a reference image for the East India Company's trading fleet and the long arc of colonial rule in India.

From the East India Company’s ships to 200 years of colonial rule — where this library begins.

Close-up of an antique ledger book representing colonial-era accounts.

India's GDP — From 34% to 1.8%

What colonialism did to the world's richest economy.

Stack of vintage documents and old books.

The $45 Trillion Drain

The evidence — and what it means today.

Sepia-toned vintage harbour scene representing colonial trade.

The East India Company

The world's first corporate coup.

Antique mill machinery, a visual reference to colonial industrial extraction.

Famine as Policy

Consequence — or instrument — of empire?

Vintage legal documents in muted sepia tones.

Apology and Reparations

Does Britain owe India an apology — and should reparations be on the table?

Aged law book and folded documents.

The Colonial Laws India Never Let Go

Sedition, the IPC, and what replaced them.

Open ledger pages with handwritten entries.

How the British Codified Caste

How census and law hardened a fluid social order.

Old schoolbooks and stacked documents.

The Macaulay Minute at 190

Is India decolonising its education system?

Antique map of the Indian subcontinent.

The Kohinoor and Global Repatriation

The diamond, the demand, and the wider artefact movement.

Sepia archival image referencing colonial-era institutions.

The Empire That Never Left

English, finance, and institutions in modern India.