This episode emphasizes the social and cultural policy and rounds off the discussion of the previous two episodes on the administrative, political, legal, and penal codes set up by the British East India Company, keeping in focus the commercial goals of the first colonization phase. 

This episode explores the reforms made by Cornwallis during his tenure to Land Revenue and general administrative structures. It also goes deeper into the additional reforms made by Cornwallis to the legal system initiated by Warren Hastings. Finally, we take a look at the approach to set-up 'rule-of-law' to help trade and business as well as setting of Civil Services in India. 

This episode focuses on the policy aspect of the British East India Company, which was centered around extracting maximum revenue from the colonies to pay for the exported goods from India. Instead of looking at each in isolation, it is important to look at them together and in the larger context of East India Company's expansion in India.

This episode rounds off the discussion on the final Anglo-Maratha and Anglo-Mysore Wars and finishes the first phase of British colonization of India. This was the commercial phase under which East India Company's policies were centered on furthering the company's interest in India. We leave the discussion at 1805. 

This episode discusses when the British East India Company turns its attention to Mysore and Marathas due to the lure of cotton, resham, spice, and opium trade with China. 

This episode discusses the two key battles and their nature that established the British's dominance over the prosperous Diwani of Bengal and Awadh and the approach of the British after the Battle of Buxar in 1764.

This episode explores why the British East India Company and not the French were able to lay claims to India. It also examines views that the British East India Company was needed to modernize India after the decline of the Mughal Empire.

This episode talks about the arrival of various trading companies in India. It tracks the events that led to these companies developing political aspirations of colonizing this part of the world.

This episode looks at the hot mess that was created as the result of the Cold War that spanned 40 years. Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Cuba, Serbia, and Ukraine are just a few conflicts that had their roots in Cold War diplomacy. 

This episode focuses on the period between 1917-1947, a tumultuous time in Europe and the world, which saw the rise of Stalin's Russian communism and the Nazi party in Germany, along with the economic depression of 1929.