By the early decades of the twentieth century, the British Empire covered a staggering 30 million square kilometers, and contained a population of 400 to 500 million people – then roughly a quarter of the world’s inhabitants. Making it, in effect, the most extensive area under one country’s rule in human history.
And while stories of the horrors perpetuated by the realities of British colonization are legion, one of the most tumultuous chapters in the history of the British Empire was undoubtedly its control and subjugation of the Republic of India.
