In Governors of Empire, historian Amar Farooqui traces the journeys each of these men undertook, from arriving on Indian shores, through acquiring territories using equal parts trade agreements and ...

This work, as the title suggests, is about British Empire’s governors who came and left a mark of some kind before leaving ...

CLIVE OF PLASSEY —A. Mervyn Davies — Scribner ($3.75). Most people remember Robert, Lord Clive as a figure in Henty’s With Clive In India. There was little else to read about him until last week A.

On a grey November morning in 1774, London was buzzing with a shocking story. Robert Clive, Baron Clive of Plassey, called by some the founder of Britain’s Indian Empire and by others its “most ...