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William Bentinck, Governor-General of the company from 1828, addresses the issue of whether to intervene.

This map shows how large the British Raj was during 1858-1947

A wealthy East Indian man gives an apparently non-East Indian woman a crash course in his culture, so he can marry her with his family's approval.

It's 1947 and the borderlines between India and Pakistan are being drawn. A young girl witnesses tragedy as her ayah (nanny) is caught between the love of two men and the rising tide of political and religious violence.

A pair of children, born within moments of India gaining independence from Britain, grow up in the country that is nothing like their parent's generation.

In 1861, the British began enforcing Section 377 of their penal code, which could punish those who committed sodomy or other homosexual acts with life in prison.

Explores Arjie's sexual awakening from a young boy to a teenager who falls in love with a male classmate, just as political tensions escalate between the Sinhalese and Tamils in the years leading up to the 1983 uprisings.

This act raised the age of consent for sexual intercourse for all girls, married or unmarried, from ten to twelve years of age in all jurisdictions. Now, violators were subject to criminal prosecution of rape.
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