Britain didn’t fight the second world war — the British empire did.  Had it not been for the empire, Britain might have lost the second world war, says William Dalrymple. The war certainly lost Britain the empire.  In 1929, when Edwin Lutyens handed over the newly completed building site of New Delhi to the Viceroy, … Continue reading YASMIN KHAN. The Raj at War: A People’s History of India’s Second World War… Continue reading »