The play’s title The Empress is based on Queen Victoria, the Empress of India. Gupta used the real relationship between Queen Victoria and Abdul Karim as inspiration for her play and to explore ...
Painting of the massacre at the Kanpur Ghats With the Prince of Wales's royal progress through India in 1875-76, and Victoria's new title as Empress of India, engineered at the same time by ...
As the Indian Mutiny of 1857-8 shook the British Empire, the symbolic authority of Queen Victoria – as Empress of India – ...