Dr B R Ambedkar, the principal architect of India's Constitution is celebrated ... of this financial relationship between the provinces and the central government from 1833 to 1921.

A smattering of princely states, large and small. A huge, consolidated British province. This was the vast expanse of Central India in 1947. It is hard to imagine a more disparate image of what is ...

India has at large been the gainer. The Company had served its term, and had to give way to a more central power in the interest of the empire generally. One cannot help contrasting, however ...