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The British began to trade with India in the early 1600s—a lucrative but dangerous business. In the mid-1700s, they found themselves masters of Bengal. Over the next 50 years, they became overlords of the whole sub-continent and united it politically for the first time.  Until the 1850s, British India was run by the Honorable East India Company.  The British government then took over and ruled directly, but faced an independence movement after 1900.  The partition of British India in 1947 into two independent countries, India and Pakistan, was bloody and traumatic, with consequences that continue to be felt up to the present. Presenter: Patrick Allitt is the Cahoon Family Professor of American History at Emory University. He is the author of The Conservatives: Ideas and Personalities Throughout American History. He also recorded a series of lectures on the Anglo-American conservative tradition with The Great Courses. Cost: $25/$35 Coordinator:  Al Pearson

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