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- | birth_place = Santokdas, Sahiwal, Punjab, British India ... Mathematics, most ambitious young men of India at his time entered Indian ...10 KB (1,560 words) - 04:45, 14 June 2023
- of Lothal circa 2400 B.C.E. in Gujarat, India. Lothal's dockyards ... * Lothal in Gujarat, India circa 2400 B.C.E. to 1900 B.C.E. ...13 KB (1,801 words) - 14:17, 27 January 2023
- Christian Socialism. Tawney influenced the British Labour Party through his ... Richard Henry Tawney was born on November 30, 1880, in Calcutta, India ...14 KB (1,999 words) - 01:48, 14 December 2022
- Indian independence movement against the British Raj. Bose was elected president ... that INA soldiers were attacking British India from the outside. ...36 KB (5,476 words) - 21:09, 26 February 2023
- of Edinburgh University, after serving in India from 1837 until 1876. Following ... Shaw secured a writership for him with the British East India Company where ...26 KB (3,916 words) - 10:37, 11 May 2023
- the Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary, in Rajasthan, India, has become a famous avifauna ... short period of time, like the Republic of India. Governments' responsibility ...24 KB (3,401 words) - 03:29, 6 October 2022
- and partly in Germany. His father, a West India Company merchant, hoped his ... acclamation granted to other contemporary British explorers of Africa. Queen ...9 KB (1,323 words) - 03:03, 23 December 2022
- [[Image:BritishLibraryOssulston.JPG|thumb|250px|The British Library ... The British Library (BL) is the national library of the United Kingdom ...19 KB (2,837 words) - 02:43, 22 November 2023
- 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
- chili plants were not introduced into India until late in the fifteenth ... kinds of dishes common in Tamil Nadu, South India which are made with vegetables ...30 KB (4,736 words) - 06:48, 12 January 2024
- After Partition of Bengal (Partition of British India) in 1947, Khan ... Khan: Two Legends of Pakistan, Behind British India's freedom. 2003 ...14 KB (1,944 words) - 07:15, 16 June 2023
- employed satyagraha tactics against British rule in India during his ... advise violence…. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to ...17 KB (2,735 words) - 22:38, 3 April 2020
- of the Labour Party than anyone else in British history. Churchill himself ... the decolonization of a large part of the British Empire, in which what are ...22 KB (3,382 words) - 11:07, 19 December 2023
- of Oxford alumnus Cecil John Rhodes, the British-born founder of the De Beers ... interests. An elitist, he thought the British were destined to rule other ...17 KB (2,434 words) - 20:03, 8 December 2022
- The British Virgin Islands is a British overseas territory, located ... The British Virgin Islands are comprised of 36 semi-tropical Caribbean ...19 KB (2,753 words) - 02:45, 22 November 2023
- as 500 B.C.E. in what is now the nation of India. The term originally comes ... Molasses has been used since as early as 500 B.C.E. in India (created ...11 KB (1,738 words) - 13:05, 10 March 2023
- The Pandyan kingdom was an ancient Tamil state in South India of unknown ... century this part of India was part of British India. ==Sources== ...21 KB (3,154 words) - 06:36, 18 November 2022
- Bidar, and Berar of south-central India. The Deccan sultanates located ... and art in the southern region of India. As with the Muslims in the ...20 KB (2,927 words) - 09:00, 28 January 2024
- Hanover, and Great Britain (including British colonies in North America ... On the other side of the world, the British East India Company acquired ...29 KB (4,438 words) - 10:09, 26 January 2023
- tip of Singapore island, served as a key British coastal fort during the ... The British recognized Labrador's strategic value as early as ...15 KB (2,283 words) - 06:35, 1 April 2024
- , Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE), Distinguished ... For most of his career an officer of the British Indian Army, he was the ...24 KB (3,728 words) - 18:26, 17 April 2023
- In areas where it persists, especially in India, China, and Africa, there ... The origins of the dowry custom in India is lost in antiquity, although ...20 KB (3,330 words) - 17:30, 30 January 2024
- |nationality = British |field = demography, macroeconomics ... 13, 1766 – December 29, 1834) was a British demographer and political ...20 KB (2,912 words) - 15:46, 6 February 2024
- The cuisine of India is one of the world's most diverse cuisines ... India’s unique blend of cuisines evolved through large-scale cultural ...28 KB (4,219 words) - 22:01, 4 February 2023
- ===Surrender to British Authorities=== In 1945, Waldheim surrendered to British forces in Carinthia, in southern ...13 KB (1,913 words) - 04:39, 4 March 2023
- Dhilli, is the second largest metropolis in India after Mumbai. Located in ... Calcutta was declared the capital of British India and Delhi was made a ...33 KB (4,788 words) - 09:20, 28 January 2024
- The Indian Rebellion of 1857 began as a mutiny of sepoys of British East India Company's army on May 10, 1857, in the town of Meerut, and ...41 KB (6,196 words) - 18:35, 4 March 2024
- Parthenon, large portions of it are in the British Museum. The lowest kind ... Themetopes from the Parthenon—now in the British Museum—is among the best ...15 KB (2,307 words) - 03:37, 8 December 2022
- The Evolution of Provincial Finance in British India. His first published ... The evolution of provincial finance in British India; a study in the provincial ...34 KB (5,057 words) - 05:20, 26 August 2023
- in Lahore. Mughal architecture graced India and Pakistan, created after ... Aurangzeb at the Red Fort complex in Delhi, India, from 1659-1660. ...15 KB (2,177 words) - 06:36, 1 April 2024
- on October 27 1984 in Baroda, Gujarat, India), an Indian cricketer who ... three wickets and won man of the match as India beat arch rivals Pakistan ...28 KB (4,101 words) - 13:13, 6 March 2024
- – January 30, 1998) was a distinguished British theologian, missionary, ... Both were designated for service in Madras, India. At Westminster ...30 KB (4,685 words) - 22:01, 25 October 2022
- 24, 1873 – September 19, 1940) was a British pioneer of ethnography. ... was responsible for the shift in focus of British anthropology from Pacific ...11 KB (1,543 words) - 19:06, 4 December 2023
- Bose was born in Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal, India, the eldest ... into a national institution, free of British influence. The Vice-Chancellor ...13 KB (1,968 words) - 17:03, 23 December 2022
- On the one hand, his defeat of the Moghul Empire allowed the British ... Afghans. His thoughts now turned to Mughal India to the south. This once powerful ...23 KB (3,626 words) - 23:01, 10 November 2022
- Austen Henry Layard (March 5, 1817 – July 5, 1894) was a British ... acquaintance of Sir Stratford Canning, the British ambassador, who employed ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 17:54, 22 August 2023
- medicine and good nutrition among British soldiers and helped to advance ... to Lind, scurvy caused more deaths in the British fleets than French and Spanish ...13 KB (2,046 words) - 21:20, 20 March 2024
- the ruling families of Mewar in Rajasthan (India) are some examples of traditional ... based on longstanding practices. In India, the British created the ...10 KB (1,553 words) - 19:17, 22 August 2023
- and first Prime Minister of the Republic of India. Popularly referred to as ... advocating complete independence from the British Empire. An icon for Indian ...41 KB (6,185 words) - 23:02, 3 May 2023
- that complex civilizations existed in India and China, from which luxury ... between France and Britain for control of India, and it is sometimes claimed ...18 KB (2,670 words) - 01:22, 18 November 2022
- , located in the state of Uttarakhand in northern India. The park ... Alpine Research, based on maps of the Survey of India. The Inner Sanctuary ...20 KB (2,980 words) - 01:17, 11 November 2022
- attracts students from all over North East India, West Bengal, Bhutan, Nepal ... most probably due to the inability of the British to pronounce the word. ...23 KB (3,374 words) - 17:14, 14 May 2024
- ancient Egypt and temples of ancient southern India. Today, granite ... There is a French scheme, a British scheme, and an American ...12 KB (1,794 words) - 12:17, 24 January 2023
- was a major political leader of the All India Muslim League who founded ... assembly, and the Military of British India was divided between Muslim ...37 KB (5,500 words) - 01:48, 11 March 2023
- other roles served as U.S. ambassador to India under President Kennedy. He was also awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian ...18 KB (2,525 words) - 02:28, 9 February 2023
- Saint Ursula was a legendary Romano-British princess traditionally ... combined with an unrelated legend about a British princess named Ursula and ...11 KB (1,674 words) - 00:54, 23 December 2022
- the Nobel Peace Prize along with the British Friends Service Council ... to work in France, where they worked with British Quakers to provide relief ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 03:35, 24 July 2023
- The First War of Indian Independence was a period of rebellions in northern and central India against British power in 1857–1858. The British ...43 KB (6,818 words) - 17:25, 28 March 2024
- Macao has many similarities with Goa in India. The presence of Portuguese ... The British East India Company established the Old Protestant Cemetery ( ...18 KB (2,756 words) - 21:51, 31 January 2024
- in the region and threaten their hold on India and safe passage to and from ... this he negotiated a treaty with the British, but the senior British ...11 KB (1,626 words) - 04:44, 11 January 2023
- was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions from December ... For political and religious reasons, the British Prime Minister, Stanley ...35 KB (5,207 words) - 21:42, 8 February 2024
- A sari or saree is the traditional female garment in India, Bangladesh ... A sari or saree is the traditional female garment in India, Bangladesh ...21 KB (3,307 words) - 03:28, 23 December 2022
- he began cooperation with the British. On March 27, 1945, he led ... his great uncle Bo Min Yaung fought the British annexation in 1886.Aung ...17 KB (2,666 words) - 17:51, 22 August 2023
- century, before the arrival of the British, who developed the harbor ... Catholic All Saints Church, built by the British in 1868 and consecrated ...17 KB (2,690 words) - 03:58, 18 April 2024
- United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, British India (present-day Prayagraj ... 31, 1984) nee Nehru) was Prime Minister of India from January 19, 1966 to ...30 KB (4,508 words) - 00:36, 27 January 2021
- they used gunpowder for the first time in India. The Mughal Empire is known ... the center, soon aided and abetted by the British and French. Under an initial ...31 KB (4,705 words) - 17:54, 10 November 2022
- and Pakistan, as well as large parts of India, Mesopotamia, and Caucasus ... Babur, the ruler of Ferghana, invaded India and founded the Mughal Empire ...22 KB (3,337 words) - 23:37, 30 April 2023
- The Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie or ... would form Indonesia. The Dutch East India Company impacted on European ...19 KB (2,812 words) - 17:23, 12 February 2024
- |British Indian Ocean TerritoryThe British Indian Ocean Territory ... |Guernsey (British crown dependency)||Saint Peter Port |- ...20 KB (2,886 words) - 04:26, 29 October 2022
- . In 1937 she moved to Kenya, then a British Colony. In 1944 she married ... George Adamson was born in Dholpur, Rajasthan, India (then British ...13 KB (2,030 words) - 02:00, 8 September 2022
- Goethe] Yearbook of the Goethe Society of India, 1999-2000, S. 184-201. Retrieved ... Sheikh Muhammad Iqbal was born in Sialkot, Punjab (British India ...34 KB (5,166 words) - 17:56, 10 November 2022
- in the fourteenth century. Rediscovered by British explorer John Still in 1907 ... similar to the paintings in Ajanta Caves of India. Sigiriya has an upper palace ...13 KB (1,926 words) - 20:09, 21 April 2023
- land of the thunderbolt." During the British Raj in India, Darjeeling ... to the mid nineteenth century as part of a British development of the area ...33 KB (4,712 words) - 06:27, 15 January 2023
- and in the Americas, the Swedish East India Company was established in ... and fur trading colony to bypass French, British, and Dutch merchants. They ...18 KB (2,669 words) - 00:38, 27 February 2023
- January 11, 1859 – March 20, 1925) was a British Conservative statesman, ... of Asia and their implications for British India. At the same time they ...36 KB (5,555 words) - 08:08, 23 January 2023
- British Raj (rāj, lit. "rule" in Hindi) or British India, officially the British Indian Empire, and internationally and contemporaneously ...52 KB (7,786 words) - 02:44, 22 November 2023
- Ajanta Caves in Maharashtra, India are a Buddhist monastery complex ... numbered by the Archaeological Survey of India), located in a wooded and ...19 KB (2,978 words) - 07:12, 16 June 2023
- has its origin in the ancient history of India. The original building of ... purpose, as with most ancient cities. The British sealed shut all gates but ...16 KB (2,492 words) - 22:07, 3 May 2023
- (March 5, 1879 – March 16, 1963) was a British economist and social reformer ... William Henry Beveridge was born in Bengal, India, on March 5, 1879 ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 15:39, 6 May 2023
- and Southeast Asia, and particularly in India. Elephants employed in that ... While working as a police officer for the British colonial government ...23 KB (3,632 words) - 01:57, 15 January 2023
- He was the last British monarch to have been born outside of Great ... to important territorial gains for the British in North America and Asia ...28 KB (4,125 words) - 12:22, 10 November 2022
- , or AP, the "Rice Bowl of India," refers to a state in ... continued into the twentieth century. When India gained independence from ...30 KB (4,151 words) - 20:00, 26 July 2023
- (June 25, 1900 – August 27, 1979), was a British admiral and statesman, a ... has often been referred to as "British India." Prior to Partition ...36 KB (5,344 words) - 04:07, 4 November 2022
- a wire, insulated with tarred hemp and India rubber, in the water of New ... a Scottish surgeon in the service of the British East India Company. Twenty ...19 KB (2,734 words) - 21:23, 26 February 2023
- took place in Europe as well as in Mughal India prior to the Industrial Revolution ... Emma Griffin, A short History of the British Industrial Revolution (Red ...23 KB (3,165 words) - 17:35, 25 September 2021
- refers to a Department of the Government of India, under the Ministry of Railways ... Indian Railways, a state monopoly on India's rail transport, ...37 KB (5,222 words) - 13:17, 4 March 2024
- * Asher, Catherine Ella Blanshard. 1992. Architecture of Mughal India ... * Begley, W. E. 1985. Monumental Islamic calligraphy from India. Villa ...17 KB (2,508 words) - 19:52, 21 April 2023
- 23, 1924 – July 28, 1994) was a famous British anthropologist and ethnographer ... degree. Thereafter he traveled to India, where he gained a master’s ...12 KB (1,900 words) - 22:31, 7 January 2024
- new generations to the timeless wisdom of India. He brought a more ... Yogananda was born Mukunda Lal Ghosh in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, ...22 KB (3,146 words) - 07:48, 18 November 2022
- nation after Sri Lanka was ceded to the British Empire in 1815. Its status ... are known as the Sinhalese, migrated from India. As Colombo possesses a natural ...25 KB (3,677 words) - 22:37, 7 January 2024
- the most famous Britons who expanded the British Empire. With such names ... working as a clerk in London for the British East India Company, the ...33 KB (5,257 words) - 16:24, 8 February 2023
- of New Dhaka as a provincial center of the British Raj and ended a century ... mention in the histories of both Bengal and British India. ...25 KB (3,589 words) - 18:25, 6 January 2024
- had been vital in maintaining control of India. For this reason, colonial ... crisis resulted in the resignation of the British Conservative prime minister ...23 KB (3,489 words) - 21:32, 26 February 2023
- A Non Profit Organization can be registered in India as a Society ... Non-profit organizations in India (a) exist independently of the state; ...18 KB (2,646 words) - 09:59, 11 March 2023
- Mancham won the popular vote when the British gave the Seychelles independence ... of Jurists at the Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, India under the distinguished patronage ...16 KB (2,221 words) - 16:04, 8 February 2023
- First, the site had been used by the British as an opium warehouse during ... a strategic and important location for the British colonial government before ...16 KB (2,404 words) - 08:12, 24 November 2022
- Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, was a British army officer and administrator ... of the Summer Palace. He remained with the British forces occupying northern ...21 KB (3,345 words) - 19:07, 4 December 2023
- or to resolve the ongoing dispute with India over Kashmir, believing that ... commissioned on July 15, 1939, joining the British Army. In World War II he ...20 KB (3,141 words) - 10:02, 22 May 2023
- born in Clapham, London and died in Adyar, India where she was President of ... M. K. Gandhi said that she woke India from a deep sleep and that he ...34 KB (5,469 words) - 04:59, 31 July 2023
- represent sections of the Constitution of India that prescribe the fundamental ... 1947 and 1949 by the Constituent Assembly of India. Credit for the ...44 KB (6,390 words) - 07:20, 15 April 2024
- 1865 – January 20, 1936) was the first British monarch belonging to the ... Although they occasionally toured the British Empire, George preferred ...39 KB (5,812 words) - 13:04, 14 November 2022
- , an ancient city of Malwa in central India on the eastern bank of the ... Ujjain has served as a center of science and culture in northern India ...17 KB (2,475 words) - 01:27, 3 May 2023
- 23, 1937) was a Bengali from undivided India, who contributed to the foundations ... but also for the changes they brought to India and the Western attitude ...24 KB (3,668 words) - 12:40, 6 November 2021
- Yugoslavia joined on March 25, 1941, but a British-supported coup ... " While Abdul-Illah supported the British in the war, Kaylani was ...31 KB (4,510 words) - 07:22, 23 August 2023
- (May 28, 1759 – January 23, 1806) was a British politician of the late eighteenth ... the Younger's father was an important British statesman, as was his maternal ...28 KB (4,338 words) - 18:25, 17 April 2023
- Other traditions in India claim that he was from Kerala and that he ... as one of two major mathematical centers in India (Ujjain was the other). He ...23 KB (3,364 words) - 17:44, 16 August 2023
- political and military empire in ancient India. Originating from the kingdom ... Emperor Bindusara expanded the Empire into India's central and southern ...32 KB (4,663 words) - 00:50, 9 November 2022
- for example, to say that an Englishman in India or Egypt in the later nineteenth ... Said devoted much less attention to the British Raj in India, by far the ...19 KB (2,870 words) - 23:50, 12 February 2024
- 1806 to London with intentions of going to India after he had been named private ... to go into the Merchant Navy with the East India Company's fleet of ships. ...15 KB (2,205 words) - 16:19, 13 February 2024
- in the Himalayas. The least populous state in India, url=http://www ... Sugauli Treaty—and Sikkim and British India—the Titalia Treaty—returned ...35 KB (5,094 words) - 20:10, 21 April 2023
