Queen Victoria's Enemies (3)
Knight, Ian / Scollins, Richard![Queen Victoria's Enemies (3)](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/104/10495226/CHSBZCOP0310495226.jpg)
By the time Queen Victoria came to the throne, India - some 1, 600, 000 square miles, ranging from soaring mountains to deserts and jungle swamps, populated by 400, 000, 000 people with a kaleidoscope of different cultures and religions - was firmly in the grip of a handful of British East India Company administrators, either ruling directly or through Indian nominees. However, the Company's search for a policy in western India embroiled it in...