10 Social Studies: India

Websites

• Timeline of the British Empire

• Origins of British India

  Overview article from Oxford research encyclopeadia on Asian HIstory

• Primary Sources - Raj and the Empire

  Sources from the National Library of Scotland

• Library of Congress - Asia reading room

  Many resources for both India and Pakistan

• British Library - Britain's Indian Empire

• Living in the British Empire of India

  National Archives

Podcasts

• Podcast - The Indian Mutiny

  From BBC Radio podcast series - 'In Our Time'. Melvyn Bragg and guests Faisal Devji, Shruti Kapila and Chandrika Kaul discuss the Indian Mutiny of 1857 and the rebellion which followed.

• Podcast - The East India Company

  From BBC radio series 'In Our Time'. Melvyn Bragg discusses the powerful private trading company that redrew the map of India, built an empire and reinvented the fashions and the foodstuffs of Britain.

Videos