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- The British East India Company, sometimes referred to as "John Company," was a joint-stock company which was granted an English Royal ...38 KB (6,054 words) - 02:25, 22 November 2023
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- The first, second, and third Anglo-Maratha wars were fought between the army of the British East India Company, which after 1757 was de facto ...12 KB (1,887 words) - 05:59, 28 July 2023
- 31, 1738 – October 5, 1805) was a British military commander and colonial ... In India, where he served two terms as Governor-General, he is remembered ...9 KB (1,361 words) - 01:57, 4 December 2023
- trading posts in Africa, the Caribbean, and India. Christian IV first initiated ... the dominant power there. The Danish East India Company was established in ...10 KB (1,462 words) - 22:08, 25 January 2024
- Warren Hastings (December 6, 1732 - August 22, 1818) was the first and most well-known governor-general of British India, from 1773 to 1785. ...14 KB (2,155 words) - 22:56, 3 May 2023
- against against the imposition of a British tax on tea and to the preferential ... The protest ruined 18,000 pounds of tea and infuriated the British ...9 KB (1,449 words) - 19:52, 20 November 2023
- 26, 1841, – January 29, 1917, was a British statesman, diplomat and ... to the Staff College before being posted to India as Attaché to his cousin ...10 KB (1,464 words) - 04:54, 23 March 2024
- ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore in southern India. A soldier-adventurer, Haider ... He now attracted the attention of the British in Madras, who in 1766 entered ...12 KB (1,977 words) - 18:40, 31 July 2023
- A vivid introduction to the History of British India (New York: Academy Chicago ... A Vivid Introduction to the History of British India (New York: Academy Chicago ...13 KB (1,985 words) - 14:24, 8 February 2022
- while posted with the military and the East India Company in the Middle East ... Persia and Afghanistan as springboards to British India. ...10 KB (1,581 words) - 23:12, 8 February 2022
- of the two largest Presidencies of British India, assumed special importance ... British India officially adopted the standard time zones in 1905, ...13 KB (1,858 words) - 18:36, 4 March 2024
- meaning the Red Fort, located in Delhi, India, has been awarded the UNESCO ... The Red Fort has become a symbol for Indian independence from British ...10 KB (1,606 words) - 02:24, 8 December 2022
- Indian political leaders during the British Raj. He founded the Indian ... Banerjee was knighted by the British in 1921. His moderate stance ...10 KB (1,458 words) - 23:52, 26 February 2023
- St. Thomas Mount is a small hillock located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu ... painted by the apostle Luke and brought to India by Thomas, is hung in the ...9 KB (1,390 words) - 16:21, 8 February 2023
- L. James. Raj; Making and unmaking of British India. (Abacus. 1997), 571 ... * James, Lawrence. 1997. Raj: the making and unmaking of British India ...20 KB (3,080 words) - 15:58, 7 December 2022
- as Bharatiya Kokila (The Nightingale of India), was a child prodigy, freedom ... Sarojini Naidu was born in Hyderabad, India as the eldest daughter ...13 KB (2,030 words) - 02:26, 21 April 2023
- "Chatterjee" as spelt by the British) was a Bengali poet, novelist ... as the “father of the modern novel in India,” because his works established ...11 KB (1,623 words) - 03:34, 17 September 2023
- it, also to a former province of British India called Ajmer-Merwara. In 1818, the Marathas sold Ajmer to the British East India Company, inaugurating ...14 KB (1,997 words) - 07:13, 16 June 2023
- harbour off the coast of Mumbai (Bombay), India. In 1987, UNESCO designated ... islands in Mumbai Harbour, east of Mumbai, India. That island serves as a ...10 KB (1,412 words) - 16:07, 13 February 2024
- becoming a popular summer retreat for the British East India Company during ... The British constructed the Nilgiri Mountain Railway, a part of the ...15 KB (2,206 words) - 04:44, 15 November 2022
- territories that did not belong to British India in combination with the ... cult of Thuggee and its overthrow in British India (1968). Dan Simmons& ...16 KB (2,481 words) - 17:24, 18 April 2023
