Image Credits

The first subscription list: © British Library Board. All Rights Reserved/Bridgeman Images

Sir Thomas Smythe by Simon de Passe: © British Library Board. All Rights Reserved/Bridgeman Images

Sir James Lancaster: © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

Sir Thomas Roe: © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

Jahangir as the Millennial Sultan: © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, USA/Bridgeman Images

New East India House: © London Metropolitan Archives, City of London/Bridgeman Images

East India Company ships at Deptford, 1660: © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

Headquarters of the Dutch East India Company at Hughli: CC0 1.0 Universal/Courtesy of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Fort William, Calcutta: © British Library Board. All Rights Reserved/ Bridgeman Images

Mughal Emperor Alamgir Aurangzeb: © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

Shivaji Bhonsle: © The Trustees of the British Museum

Nader Shah: © The Bodleian Libraries, The University of Oxford MS. Ouseley Add. 173, fol. 29v

Nader Shah with Emperor Muhammad Shah Rangila: © RMN-Grand Palais (MNAAG, Paris)/Thierry Ollivier

Mughal Prince on the terrace of the Red Fort: © William Dalrymple

Aerial view over the Red Fort: © British Library Board. All Rights Reserved/Bridgeman Images

A Leisurely Ride by Nainsukh: © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Europeans Besiege a City: © The Trustees of the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin CBL In 59.10

A scene at a Murshidabad shrine: © British Library Board. All Rights Reserved/Bridgeman Images

Above the Hughli near Murshidabad, detail: © The Trustees of the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin CBL In 69.10

The palaces of Faizabad: The David Collection, Copenhagen/Photographer: Pernille Klemp 46/1980

Aliverdi Khan goes hawking: © British Library Board. All Rights Reserved/Bridgeman Images

Aliverdi Khan with his nephews and grandsons on a terrace, Murshidabad: © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Siraj ud-Daula and women: Collection of Czaee Shah, Image © 2017 Christie’s Images Limited

Siraj ud-Daula dancing: © 2017 Christie’s Images Limited

Shahmat Jang enjoys a musical performance: Lent by the Estate of the late Major General Sir John Swinton. Photography by John McKenzie for L&T

Siraj ud-Daula rides off to war: Lent by the Estate of the late Major General Sir John Swinton. Photography by John McKenzie for L&T

Ghulam Hussain Khan: © The Bodleian Libraries, The University of Oxford MS. Douce Or. a. 3, fol. 16r

Robert Clive at the Battle of Plassey by William Heath: © National Army Museum, London/Bridgeman Images

Mir Jafar Khan, 1760: © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Lord Robert Clive, c. 1764 by Thomas Gainsborough © National Army Museum, London/Bridgeman Images

Shah Alam II: © British Library Board. All Rights Reserved/Bridgeman Images

Mir Jafar and his son: © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Mir Jafar: © William Dalrymple

Mir Qasim: © William Dalrymple

Khoja Gregory, known as Gurghin Khan: © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Official in Discussion with a Nawab: © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

A Palladian house and garden: © British Library Board. All Rights Reserved/Bridgeman Images

View of Government House and Esplanade Road: © British Library Board. All Rights Reserved/Bridgeman Images

Ashraf Ali Khan by Dip Chand: © British Library Board. All Rights Reserved/Bridgeman Images

Muttubby by Dip Chand: © British Library Board. All Rights Reserved/Bridgeman Images

Procession of Nawab Shuja ud-Daula: © The Bodleian Libraries, The University of Oxford MS. Douce Or. a. 3, fol. 4r

Captain James Tod rides an elephant: © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Sir Hector Munro, attributed to David Martin: © National Portrait Gallery, London

Madras sepoys: © National Army Museum, London/Bridgeman Images

British Officer in a Palanquin: © British Library Board. All Rights Reserved/Bridgeman Images

A Military Officer of the East India Company: © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Robert Clive: © National Portrait Gallery, London

The Young Warren Hastings: © National Portrait Gallery, London

Shah Alam Conveying the Gift of the Diwani to Lord Clive: © British Library Board. All Rights Reserved/Bridgeman Images

Shah Alam reviewing the Troops of the East India Company: By kind permission of the Trustees of Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata

Shuja ud-Daula, Nawab of Avadh: By kind permission of the Trustees of Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata

The royal procession of Shah Alam: © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Nana Phadnavis by James Wales: By kind permission of the Trustees of Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata

Sepoys of the Madras Infantry: © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

The Battle of Pollilur: Mary Evans/© Otto Money (photography by AIC Photographic Services)

Edmund Burke: © National Portrait Gallery, London

Philip Francis: © National Portrait Gallery, London

Warren Hastings: © National Portrait Gallery, London

The Impeachment of Warren Hastings: © British Library Board. All Rights Reserved/Bridgeman Images

Mahadji Scindia in Delhi: © British Library Board. All Rights Reserved/Bridgeman Images

Qudsia Bagh Palace: © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

The blind Shah Alam II: © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Tipu Sultan on his elephant, detail of the Battle of Pollilur: Mary Evans/ © Otto Money (Photography by AIC Photographic Services)

Lord Cornwallis receiving the sons of Tipu Sultan: By kind permission of the Trustees of Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata

Tipu Sultan: © Private Collection, USA, image courtesy of Oliver Forge & Brendan Lynch Ltd

A View of the East India Docks: © British Library Board. All Rights Reserved/Bridgeman Images

Mahadji Scindia: © British Library Board. All Rights Reserved/Bridgeman Images

Daulat Rao: © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Richard Wellesley by John Philip ‘Pope’ Davis: © National Portrait Gallery, London

Arthur Wellesley by Robert Home: © National Portrait Gallery, London

The Duke of Wellington on Campaign in the Deccan: © Private Collection

Two armies drawn up in combat: © The Trustees of the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin CBL In 64.17