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- and eleventh centuries, Danes were involved in exploring and settling as far ... of Greenland, whose colonial status ceased in 1953, and is now an autonomous ...10 KB (1,462 words) - 22:08, 25 January 2024
- fought between the army of the British East India Company, which after 1757 ... India’s cultures were never quite as despised as those of Africa ...12 KB (1,887 words) - 05:59, 28 July 2023
- most well-known governor-general of British India, from 1773 to 1785. He was ... On the one hand, he was more interested in India's past than he was ...14 KB (2,155 words) - 22:56, 3 May 2023
- Bôngkim Chôndro Chôţţopaddhae) ("Chattopadhyay" in ... revival of Bengal. His writings awakened in the Bengalis a spirit of self ...11 KB (1,623 words) - 03:34, 17 September 2023
- The Governor-General of India (fully Governor-General and Viceroy ... In 1858, India came under the direct control of the British Crown ...22 KB (3,062 words) - 08:16, 24 May 2024
- then the capital of the Nawab of Bengal in India. Pâlāshir, an extravagant ... Bengal, and the forces of the British East India Company. Siraj-ud-Daulah ...19 KB (3,062 words) - 10:19, 22 September 2023
- to the understanding of cosmic rays. In addition, he was a gifted administrator ... Homi Bhabha was born in a rich Parsi family in Bombay (now Mumbai ...12 KB (1,771 words) - 11:24, 2 February 2024
- ) is a city in Ajmer District in India's Rajasthan state. The ... Prithviraj Chauhan founded Ajmer (Ajaya-meru in Sanskrit) in the late ...14 KB (1,997 words) - 07:13, 16 June 2023
- Agra Fort, a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Agra, India, has ... an phenomenal remodeling along Islamic lines in the middle 1500s, Agra Fort ...12 KB (1,823 words) - 06:48, 16 June 2023
- The Dutch followed Portugal and Spain in establishing a colonial global ... Wars. The French centralized government in a Dutch client state during ...20 KB (2,997 words) - 18:52, 24 August 2020
- Mill, his personal contributions survive in his writings, which cover a ... James Mill was born April 6, 1773, at Northwater Bridge, in the parish ...11 KB (1,705 words) - 08:37, 1 April 2024
- and the Sikh Empire. His Samadhi is located in Lahore, Pakistan. For almost ... Maharaja Ranjit Singh was a Sikh born in 1780 in Gujranwala in modern ...14 KB (2,163 words) - 05:26, 5 November 2022
- Geographical Society and a civil servant in India where he served as Governor ... relevant. Elphinstone is said to have loved India. His goal was to improve ...23 KB (3,481 words) - 17:48, 10 November 2022
- network of secret fraternities engaged in murdering and robbing travellers ... English during the time of British Imperial rule of India and still denotes ...16 KB (2,481 words) - 17:24, 18 April 2023
- Ilāhābād) is the English name of a city in the north Indian state of Uttar ... , with ilāh being Arabic for "(a) god" (in this context ...16 KB (2,500 words) - 13:37, 17 May 2021
- The Gurkha War was fought between Nepal and the British East India ... The Gurkha rose in that aftermath, becoming a power in Nepal from ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 08:38, 8 January 2024
- history. His 1835, Minute on Education in India, where he was a senior ... speaking educated elite that led the self-rule struggle, inspired by the ...19 KB (3,053 words) - 18:39, 30 April 2023
- 7, 1862) was the last of the Moghul emperors in India, as well as the last ... is recognized as one of the greatest poets in this language of his day, some ...15 KB (2,445 words) - 05:45, 26 August 2023
- The government-owned organization, set up in 1873, operates one of India ... Navi Mumbai, Thane and Mira-Bhayandar. In addition to buses, it also ...24 KB (3,549 words) - 23:07, 20 November 2023
- The Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie or ... until it became bankrupt and was formally dissolved in 1800, ...19 KB (2,812 words) - 17:23, 12 February 2024
