Britain is the only superpower that was able to colonize the Indian subcontinent. The French and the British fought for years for control over the vast wealth that India possessed. In the end, the
mighty British Empire flexed its rule on the country for three centuries, with the last years of the nineteenth century being the Golden Age of British Colonialism (that saw Queen Victoria crowned with the title Empress of India).
During this long
colonial period, trade, the arts and the sciences were exchanged between the two, only to culminate in 1947 at the birth of the "Home Rule Movement" started by
Mahatma Ghandi.
