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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
- the last great Hindu kingdom in South India. Talikota situates in northern ... and Christians, the Hinduism of southern India remained strong and resilient ...11 KB (1,587 words) - 01:37, 26 September 2023
- over one of the largest territories in India not at that time under British ... By 1805, a border dispute with the British East India Company was ...14 KB (2,163 words) - 05:26, 5 November 2022
- Sanchi refers to a small village in India located 46 km north-east ... rulers in the Madhya Pradesh region of India held Buddha and Buddhism ...10 KB (1,469 words) - 03:10, 23 December 2022
- was the last of the Moghul emperors in India, as well as the last ruler ... ever. His poetry lamented loss and India’s debasement. ...15 KB (2,445 words) - 05:45, 26 August 2023
- Akbar, in 1583. In Indian languages, or in India generally, the name is ... producing a number of prime ministers of India in some form or another. ...16 KB (2,500 words) - 13:37, 17 May 2021
- Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Edward Younghusband (May 31, 1863 - July 31, 1942) was a British Army officer in India, explorer, and spiritualist ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 04:49, 9 April 2024
- and statesman, the second president of India (1962-1967). to provide a comprehensive exegesis of India's religious and philosophical ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 16:20, 27 July 2021
- in the establishment and development of India's atomic energy program ... == Back in India == While Bhabha was on a vacation in India in 1939 ...12 KB (1,771 words) - 11:24, 2 February 2024
- entities of West Bengal belonging to India, and East Bengal belonging ... third state, rather than joining either India or Pakistan. However, the ...19 KB (2,769 words) - 23:04, 28 June 2023
- Agra Fort, a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Agra, India, has ... of the Hindu government. After the British used Agra Fort as a headquarters ...12 KB (1,823 words) - 06:48, 16 June 2023
- The Gurkha War was fought between Nepal and the British East India Company between 1814 and 1816. It is sometimes called the Gorkha War or the ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 08:38, 8 January 2024
- then the capital of the Nawab of Bengal in India. Pâlāshir, an extravagant ... Nawab of Bengal, and the forces of the British East India Company. Siraj ...19 KB (3,062 words) - 10:19, 22 September 2023
- Asia and in Thailand. In 1785, the British occupied Penang, and in ... In 1821, the government of British India sent a mission to demand ...9 KB (1,378 words) - 17:21, 16 April 2023
- founders and the first president of the All-India Muslim League, and served ... He was born in Karachi, in British India (now Pakistan), to Aga Khan ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 06:10, 16 June 2023
- English philologist and student of ancient India. He is particularly known ... eventually lead him to his life-work in India. He was called to the bar ...9 KB (1,304 words) - 11:08, 10 May 2023
- in the early nineteenth century, when the British East India Company ruled ... empires throughout Africa, the Middle East, India, Southeast Asia, and China ...11 KB (1,690 words) - 10:18, 22 September 2023
- ایبک) was a Turkic ruler of medieval India, the first Sultan of Delhi ... The Muslim presence in India would see Hindu-Muslim conflict, violence ...12 KB (1,813 words) - 16:04, 7 December 2022
- Maharaja Ranjit Singh might threaten British India from the North East became ... hand, Elphinstone took back with him to British India not only significant ...23 KB (3,481 words) - 17:48, 10 November 2022
- (1769–1852), the noted Irish-born British career officer and statesman—unqualified ... * Mill, James. The History of British India. 6 vols. Chicago, IL: ...8 KB (1,279 words) - 17:20, 12 February 2024
- was signed on August 29, 1842, aboard the British warship HMS Cornwallis in ... in Shanghai, represented a development in British imperial policy which where ...13 KB (2,030 words) - 23:41, 21 April 2020
- | birth_place = Bhadeli, Bombay Presidency, British India ... activist and the fourth Prime Minister of India from 1977-1979. He was the ...17 KB (2,426 words) - 00:04, 16 December 2022
- |placeofbirth = Utmanzai, Charsadd], British India |placeofdeath ... non-violent independence movement in British India's Northwest Frontier ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 22:34, 3 March 2023
- December 11, 1767 – August 13, 1795) of India ruled as a Holkar dynasty ... Himalayas to pilgrimage centers in South India. The Bharatiya Sanskritikosh ...11 KB (1,580 words) - 06:51, 16 June 2023
- and buildings at Mehrauli in Delhi, India, the Qutub Minar standing ... stands in the Qutb complex in South Delhi, India. UNESCO designated the Qutub ...14 KB (2,079 words) - 16:04, 7 December 2022
- greatest work being the colossal History of India. His writings are characterized ... James Mill's The History of British India and Orientalism. Oxford ...11 KB (1,705 words) - 08:37, 1 April 2024
- sweetened and spiced deriving from India. By itself, the term chai ... almost infinite variety to this drink. In India, where it is traditional ...16 KB (2,494 words) - 16:17, 7 November 2022
- city in the state of Rajasthan in north India. It was formerly the seat ... to make their mark across northern India. [[Image:Jodhpur 5174663-66 ...14 KB (2,036 words) - 06:32, 5 April 2024
- In ancient India, Nālānda (Sanskrit: meaning "giver of knowledge ... Buddhism continueed to flourish after its wane in India. ...11 KB (1,637 words) - 02:42, 11 March 2023
- as an essayist and reviewer, and on British history. His 1835, Minute ... be loyal to Britain; instead, appalled at British hypocrisy, they rebelled ...19 KB (3,053 words) - 18:39, 30 April 2023
- center of cultural activities of Kerala (India) from the time it served ... The city's libraries include the British Library and Trivandrum ...11 KB (1,459 words) - 06:44, 12 January 2024
- often referred to as the Golden Age of India. Chandragupta had been the ... pamphlet collection, 58:12. Bombay: British India Press, 1913. ...13 KB (1,823 words) - 01:15, 4 December 2023
- Nagaland (Hindi: नागालैंड) is a state of India located ... role in the development of the Republic of India. A mountain tribal people ...19 KB (2,820 words) - 23:09, 10 November 2022
- Egypt, Sudan, Syria, and in Kerala, India. In total number of members ... *** The British Orthodox Church in the United Kingdom *** The French ...11 KB (1,534 words) - 01:18, 18 November 2022
- imported to grow and harvest the crop. In India, tariffs and other restrictions ... France, and England. During the war, British and French traders invested ...15 KB (2,368 words) - 21:13, 23 May 2020
- Pakistan, northeastern Iran, and western India. It was founded at Kandahar ... to safeguard his interests, Ahmad Shah left India to return to Afghanistan. ...17 KB (2,664 words) - 17:22, 12 February 2024
- Spain aided the venture. Alongside the British, the Dutch initially built ... as well as its global power status, to the British when Holland fell to French ...20 KB (2,997 words) - 18:52, 24 August 2020
- |placeofbirth=Lyallpur, Punjab, British India |placeofdeath=Lahore ... by an Intelligence Bureau Agent of British-India [sic] released. The book ...28 KB (4,246 words) - 03:31, 1 October 2023
- a town in the state of Rajasthan in north India. The town stands on a ridge ... known as "the Golden City" of India because the yellow sandstone ...15 KB (2,331 words) - 12:43, 6 November 2021
- [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/In-the-good-ol-days-of-Nathu ... trading border posts between China and India; Shipkila in Himachal Pradesh ...20 KB (2,900 words) - 23:53, 29 May 2023
- in Too Song Bhusti in Darjeeling, West Bengal, India. ==Mountaineering== Tenzing took part as a high-altitude porter in three official British ...12 KB (1,865 words) - 03:46, 30 April 2023
- Christianity stands as India's third largest religion, following ... Vasco da Gama, seeking preexisting Christian nations in India, discovered ...24 KB (3,424 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- Islam in India constitutes the second-most practiced religion after ... Islam in India has had a fascinating, and powerful impact. Indeed ...25 KB (3,703 words) - 06:10, 8 March 2024
- later renamed New York following British defeat of the Dutch. ... named Katherine because she petitioned the British East India Company to send ...9 KB (1,487 words) - 15:22, 25 January 2023
- IAST Ayodhyā), an ancient city of India, holds a cherished place ... age. The Gupta Empire covered northern India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh ...16 KB (2,296 words) - 07:27, 23 August 2023
- the route that Vasco da Gama would take to India, accompanying him part of ... Fish River. Once it had become clear that India could be reached by sailing ...10 KB (1,706 words) - 11:00, 20 September 2023
- Dravidian speakers live mainly in southern India, most notably Tamil, Kannada ... Dravidian and non-Dravidian people in South India. Some suggest that the British ...24 KB (3,241 words) - 17:33, 30 January 2024
- Secretary and Translator of the East India Company. During his 27 years ... to go to China. It was the policy of the British East India Company not to ...15 KB (2,249 words) - 01:44, 16 December 2022
- irishstatutebook.ie/isbc_bps1881.html British Public Statutes Affected ... * Batavia was a ship of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), built ...14 KB (2,145 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- Lawrence James, "Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India ... * James, Lawrence. Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India. ...22 KB (3,333 words) - 10:03, 22 September 2023
- (October 19, 1910, Lahore, British India, now in Pakistan, – August 21, 1995, Chicago, Illinois, United States) [http://books.nap.edu/readingroom/bo ...20 KB (2,980 words) - 13:44, 28 April 2023
- Taksal, a Sikh religious group based in India."Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale: ... Rode, in the Faridkot District of Punjab, India, grew up on a farm with his ...16 KB (2,278 words) - 22:08, 8 February 2023
- Portuguese India ( Índia Portuguesa holdings in India. At the time of British India's independence in ...22 KB (3,152 words) - 00:27, 12 April 2023
- Julia Margaret Cameron (June 11, 1815 – January 26, 1879) was a ... Julia Margaret Cameron was born Julia Margaret Pattle in Calcutta ...15 KB (2,391 words) - 21:09, 4 October 2022
- River, a tributary of the Ganges River. India's 2001 census reported ... of the poorest and most violent regions of India. In spite of Bodh Gaya's ...16 KB (2,541 words) - 05:18, 17 November 2023
- only religious or community leader in British India granted a personal gun ... of the more turbulent Muslims in British India, which in times of internal ...18 KB (2,724 words) - 06:09, 16 June 2023
- after a career in the service of the British East India Company and as ... Roy has been dubbed the "father of modern India" ...18 KB (2,857 words) - 00:31, 8 December 2022
- 55,000 worshipers. Jama Masjid in Delhi, India, closely resembles the architecture ... civilization. Since Pakistan split from India in 1947, Pakistan has uplifted ...10 KB (1,530 words) - 05:38, 26 August 2023
- Joseph Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936) was a British author and poet, born in India, who was best known in his own time ...14 KB (2,319 words) - 17:43, 22 December 2022
- was a convention of delegates from twelve British North American colonies ... closed the port of Boston until the East India Company had been repaid for ...14 KB (1,859 words) - 19:55, 26 March 2024
- in the Accountant's Office for the British East India Company. ... sonnets by "Mr. Charles Lamb of the India House" appeared in Coleridge ...7 KB (1,084 words) - 19:35, 4 December 2023
- *Makrana from India *Danby from Vermont, United States *Yule from Colorado ... in Manhattan, New York; the Sea of Marmara; India's Marble Rocks; the ...8 KB (1,153 words) - 03:03, 6 November 2022
- Roman trade with India started around the beginning of the Common ... coastal voyage, helped enhance trade between India and Rome. ...21 KB (3,121 words) - 04:51, 16 December 2022
- to foster the cause for independence from British rule. It was under his leadership ... England, his ship Liberty was impounded by British customs officials for violation ...9 KB (1,251 words) - 05:15, 3 August 2022
- #039;s two most noted works, A Passage to India and Howards End, explore ... He traveled in Egypt, Germany and India with the classicist Goldsworthy ...15 KB (2,168 words) - 17:30, 12 February 2024
- benefits to the traders and to the British as a whole. They could see ... passed a law that made it illegal for any British subject to transport slaves ...18 KB (2,796 words) - 15:18, 14 May 2023
- (60 miles) from Patna, Bihar state, India, sits next to the holy Bodhi ... of Falgu River, near the city of Gaya, India. There he sat in meditation ...12 KB (1,844 words) - 05:24, 5 November 2022
- Eudemus and then the satrap Peithon withdraw from India. ... The British archaeologist Sir John Marshall conducted excavations ...18 KB (2,588 words) - 00:48, 21 April 2023
- The British Empire used North America as a penal colony through a ... #039;s Land, and New South Wales as such. British affiliates of Trade Unionism ...21 KB (3,190 words) - 07:14, 23 November 2022
- to establish direct trade relations with India and the Far East. ... Cape Colony commissioned by the Dutch East India Company, and established ...15 KB (2,280 words) - 00:36, 13 January 2023
- of the most famous Hindu mystics of modern India, who claimed that all religions ... family in Karampukur village in Bengal, India. His parents named him Gadadhar ...11 KB (1,615 words) - 15:51, 18 June 2022
- Hindu religious scholar born in Gujarat, India. He is best known as the ... education, as well as a new confidence in India's cultural past and ...15 KB (2,357 words) - 08:42, 28 January 2024
- php Glossary.] Retrieved July 6, 2008. In India, caves have long been regarded ... near trade routes that crossed northern India during the time of Christ ...16 KB (2,321 words) - 22:03, 4 February 2023
- education for the Muslim community in India by founding the Muhammedan ... scholar while working as a jurist for the British East India Company. Personally ...32 KB (4,963 words) - 00:57, 21 April 2023
- 1644 in the service of the VOC (United East India Company). He was the first ... later known as Tasmania, would become a British colony. Its Aborigine population ...12 KB (1,843 words) - 04:46, 14 June 2023
- a major stopover between Tibet and British India at the end of the nineteenth ... stopover in the trade between Tibet and British India at the end of the nineteenth ...22 KB (3,354 words) - 04:26, 18 April 2024
- the 1,519 mile (2,445 km) border between Afghanistan and British India ... in 1893, which divided Afghanistan and British India (now the North-West Frontier ...26 KB (3,912 words) - 15:02, 7 October 2022
- Blue-Ensign.svg|thumb|220px|The flag of British India]] ... representing the eight provinces of British India. The words Vande Mataram ...33 KB (5,237 words) - 17:33, 28 March 2024
- of Chivalry had a direct impact on the British Articles of War. The early ... military justice system, derived from its British predecessor, predates the ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 08:45, 10 January 2024
- Kashmir, the Punjab, and Sind he invaded India on nine occasions. At the ... the service of the Shah on his invasion of India in 1738. Deli was sacked ...21 KB (3,377 words) - 06:52, 16 June 2023
- ==British India== [[Image:Madras Prov 1859.gif|thumb|right|thumb|The ... and Pakistan. Burma, separated from British India in 1937, became independent ...40 KB (5,861 words) - 00:17, 12 April 2023
- | 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 (3,408 words) - 02:28, 5 October 2022
- 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
- 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
- * 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- significant. As the voice of the British establishment, at a time ... him as an engineer at the North British Locomotive Company. Reith ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 00:36, 10 February 2023
- 1850 – June 5, 1916) was an Irish-born British Field Marshal, diplomat ... 1871. His service in France had violated British neutrality, and he was reprimanded ...25 KB (3,907 words) - 14:28, 9 February 2022
- of the Provisional Government for Free India joined the Axis, fighting ... pacts signed before the war. The Franco-British Alliance dated back to the ...16 KB (2,240 words) - 18:30, 21 July 2023
- education established by the Government of India in 1950. The first of the ... to train scientists and engineers after India attained independence in ...32 KB (4,594 words) - 21:31, 11 November 2021
- Several railways had been built in the mountainous regions of India ... It became the Summer Capital of British India in 1864. ...33 KB (4,994 words) - 17:47, 10 November 2022
- who served for many years in the British House of Commons as a member ... financial reform and on the reform of British India, Speech on Mr. Fox’s ...23 KB (3,559 words) - 18:14, 12 February 2024
- empire was the second largest behind the British Empire. At its peak, between ... Spain and Portugal and later with the British Empire and partly from commercial ...25 KB (3,770 words) - 17:17, 11 October 2022
- the cyanotype process developed by the British astronomer and photographer ... glass front. The drawing would be traced in India ink on tracing paper or tracing ...5 KB (743 words) - 05:41, 16 November 2023
- Portuguese Bank Note Crisis of 1925, the British banknote printers Waterlow ... camp and forced them to forge British pounds and American dollars ...20 KB (2,953 words) - 08:32, 10 January 2024
- Vasco da Gama discovered the seaway to India. In need of an outpost to ... The British slowly brought about a collapse of Muscat and Oman's ...14 KB (2,071 words) - 10:33, 11 March 2023
- seeking a way to open up naval trade with India. The first, and perhaps most ... marked by the development of the Dutch East India Company from a small outpost ...16 KB (2,390 words) - 15:15, 27 April 2023
- which upset the Americans and the British, who imposed an aid embargo ... rushed to her help. In a rare move, both India and Pakistan sent troops ...10 KB (1,551 words) - 09:08, 9 October 2022
- James Cook. As a missionary in Serampore, India, he translated the Bible ... at least the cultural and literary value of India's heritage, which was ...25 KB (3,845 words) - 15:53, 7 May 2023
- on dry ground. The Archaeological Survey of India has been leading the exploration ... Descent of the Ganges at Mahabalipuram, in the Tamil Nadu state India ...31 KB (4,590 words) - 10:54, 9 March 2023
- of National Importance. The Government of India created the IITs to train ... the world's best technology programs. India has faced an enormous challege ...40 KB (5,809 words) - 14:53, 16 October 2021
- his life in the examiner’s office of the British East India Company, while ... with ease. His father's History of India was published in 1818; immediately ...27 KB (4,047 words) - 07:56, 3 August 2022
- 16, 1863 – March 17, 1937), was a British statesman, politician, and ... government. After a period as Secretary for India between 1915 and 17, he was ...21 KB (3,355 words) - 00:00, 3 December 2021
- Subansiri district of Arunachal Pradesh, India. Their language belongs to ... The first contact with the Europeans occurred in 1897, when British ...11 KB (1,672 words) - 05:57, 11 August 2023
- built during the Chola rule in the south of India. Those temples include the ... Rajaraja Chola I's kingdom ruled South India, controlling tremendous wealth ...28 KB (4,178 words) - 16:37, 13 July 2017
- from Arthur James Balfour (1848–1930), British secretary of state for foreign ... well as making promises to the Jews, the British had also given certain assurances ...20 KB (3,067 words) - 05:52, 26 August 2023
- through the Khyber Pass from Pakistan and India. Over the centuries of Kabul ... through the Khyber Pass to Pakistan and India. ===Hellenistic control=== ...23 KB (3,393 words) - 06:47, 28 February 2023
- on Saint Vincent. The country has a British colonial history and is ... peoples, East Indians, Africans, and the British who settled the islands. ...18 KB (2,550 words) - 00:56, 23 December 2022
- of philosophical thought that originated in India. Indian philosophy has a ... century, when the Muslims, and then the British, took control of the country ...22 KB (3,133 words) - 22:02, 4 February 2023
- in nonviolent resistance movements in India (Mahatma Gandhi's social ... Civil disobedience in was used to great effect in India by Gandhi ...28 KB (4,286 words) - 22:27, 10 December 2023
- set up in 1873, operates one of India's largest fleets of ... one of the few electricity departments in India to garner an annual net profit ...24 KB (3,549 words) - 23:07, 20 November 2023
- Great, through the Roman Empire, to the British and Napoleonic empires saw ... is found in the ancient histories of China, India, the Middle East, Egypt, ...24 KB (3,604 words) - 15:29, 4 February 2023
- river valley in Pakistan and north-west India. "Harappan Civilization ... as far south as the Arabian Sea coast of India, as far west as the Iranian ...14 KB (2,047 words) - 19:32, 9 November 2022
- and is part of the Canadian province of British Columbia. The island is ... #039;s rich fur trading potential led the British East India Company to set ...18 KB (2,643 words) - 14:19, 3 May 2023
- against the Stamp Act that protested British efforts to tax the colonists ... for drafting written protests of various British governmental acts. Notable ...14 KB (2,136 words) - 02:17, 23 December 2022
- for merchandise farther afield, mainly in India, and using waterways to get ... With the European discovery of the sea route around Africa to India ...19 KB (2,883 words) - 00:57, 17 April 2023
- merchants from the Persian Gulf and Western India have visited the East African ... The British captured German East Africa during World War I (1914-1918 ...19 KB (2,649 words) - 22:16, 25 January 2024
- was a Pashtun freedom fighter against the British Raj, a senior politician ... rare distinction to suffer from both the British colonial power and the newly ...27 KB (3,941 words) - 22:56, 3 March 2023
- had spread throughout Europe and east into India. By the first century C.E ... Cicer arietinum) is also an edible legume (British "pulse") of the ...12 KB (1,789 words) - 17:09, 26 March 2023
- through the eponymous plains of northern India into Bangladesh. The 2,510 km ... In his book Discovery of India, Jawaharlal Nehru says: "… The ...23 KB (3,460 words) - 04:25, 18 April 2024
- The Fabian Society is a British socialist intellectual movement, whose ... a national minimum wage in order to stop British industries compensating ...17 KB (2,508 words) - 00:26, 25 March 2024
- the only road border crossing between India and Pakistan. tourist spots in the city. Colonial British structures such as the Lahore ...30 KB (4,227 words) - 05:36, 4 March 2023
- the first European colonial settlement in India. It remained the capital ... the fastest growing second-tier metros in India. Like other large cities ...42 KB (5,911 words) - 04:06, 4 March 2023
- music. He became famous not only in India, where he played and composed ... Chowdhury on April 7, 1920 in Varanasi, India to a Bengali Brahmin family ...35 KB (4,906 words) - 19:06, 16 April 2023
- in Qadian, a small village in East Punjab India, during the end of the nineteenth ... the military, such as Ali Gouhar of the British-Indian Army. ...36 KB (5,381 words) - 06:53, 16 June 2023
- The music of India includes Indian classical music, multiple varieties ... or performers. Modern classical music of India has not only preserved its ...31 KB (4,712 words) - 02:37, 11 March 2023
- the seventh-largest urban agglomeration in India. Located on the banks of ... by its namesake, Sultan Ahmed Shah. The British established a military ...41 KB (5,921 words) - 06:54, 16 June 2023
- Great Britain and countries of the former British Empire for centuries. In ... btinternet.co.uk/hanging1.html History of British judicial hanging.] Capital ...19 KB (2,904 words) - 01:19, 28 January 2022
- her borders became contiguous with British India. The Arakanese revolted ... Lord Dalhousie, the governor-general of British India, sent an emissary to ...38 KB (5,866 words) - 22:29, 15 September 2023
- kingdom once located in north-western India in what is now Pakistan and ... the Great's invasion of north-western India, Gandhara became renowned ...23 KB (3,513 words) - 18:46, 4 December 2023
- Japan’s victory over Russia was acclaimed by the British, and in August 1905, the Anglo-Japanese Alliance was renewed, two years before its ...11 KB (1,628 words) - 04:51, 5 November 2022
- of the world, particularly among Hindus in India. There, caste is rooted in ... in this way, whether they be Dalit in India, Burakumin in Japan, or Baekjeong ...31 KB (4,665 words) - 14:24, 29 November 2023
- 12, 1907 – September 3, 1963) was a British and Irish poet and playwright ... #039; leave to become Director of the British Institute in Athens, run ...17 KB (2,543 words) - 04:06, 4 November 2022
- is now Christian Aid, one of the largest British aid and development agencies ... movement and tried in vain to gain the British government's support ...18 KB (2,871 words) - 07:02, 18 April 2024
- Vandino and Ugolino Vivaldi to reach India via the Atlantic Ocean. When ... to circumnavigate Africa and reach India. In 1420, Henry sent an expedition ...29 KB (4,463 words) - 06:53, 12 September 2023
- and eighteenth centuries, as well as the British (most notably in 1803). ... city. Even after its conquest by the British, Kandy has preserved its ...14 KB (1,979 words) - 07:07, 28 February 2023
- texts in the collection of the East India Company. He supported himself ... peoples. In particular the Vedic culture of India was thought to have been ...30 KB (4,499 words) - 00:55, 9 November 2022
- quot; and "Protestant" with the British monarch as its supreme governor ... do not have this relationship with the British monarch. ...21 KB (3,167 words) - 05:52, 28 July 2023
- Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha is a British Overseas ... when it was settled by the English East India Company. A permanent settlement ...33 KB (4,923 words) - 20:47, 17 April 2023
- a system of traditional medicine native to India, and practiced in other parts ... appeared during the Vedic period in India. The Sushruta Samhita and ...26 KB (3,585 words) - 06:06, 10 January 2023
- and the Bombay nutmeg, M. malabarica, from India are both used as adulterants ... the Dutch in the seventeenth century. The British and Dutch engaged in prolonged ...17 KB (2,574 words) - 10:12, 11 March 2023
- poet of Bangladesh and commemorated in India. Scholars credit him for ... theatrical groups. After a stint in the British Indian Army, Nazrul established ...34 KB (5,210 words) - 22:44, 14 September 2023
- tribal goddess in the north-central part of India, in the region of Mount Kalanjara ... Throughout India’s history, artists have portrayed Kali in a myriad ...16 KB (2,621 words) - 02:27, 5 October 2022
- 1555–1556), was driven from the throne of India in a series of decisive battles ... Battle of Panipat, granting the throne of India to Akbar. ...23 KB (3,546 words) - 07:14, 16 June 2023
- | birth_place = Motihari, Bengal Presidency, British India ... known by the pen name George Orwell, was a British author and journalist. Noted ...23 KB (3,458 words) - 10:53, 13 December 2023
- as Bombay, is the the most populous city in India and capital of the state ... Mumbai is the commercial and entertainment capital of India, and houses ...39 KB (5,723 words) - 02:34, 11 March 2023
- Owing to its almost entire dependence upon the monsoon rains, India ... They observed that each province in British India, including Burma, had ...36 KB (5,441 words) - 00:40, 25 March 2024
- 8, 1929 in Dewsbury, Yorkshire), is a British politician and was elected ... also championed citizenship education in British schools. She has been criticized ...16 KB (2,349 words) - 18:00, 29 September 2023
- The folklore of India comprises the folklore of the nation of India ... The folklore of India is distinguished from classical Sanskrit literary ...32 KB (4,865 words) - 07:00, 5 September 2022
- , a region in west-central northern India, occupies a plateau of volcanic ... into an important power in western India by around 500 B.C.E., when ...38 KB (5,752 words) - 11:00, 9 March 2023
- a seventeenth century Marathi poet Sant of India, related to the Bhakti movement ... lines have become household sayings. The British Government in India gave ...13 KB (2,044 words) - 18:41, 2 May 2023
- === India === In India, Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Company Limited is a joint ...22 KB (3,101 words) - 18:30, 21 July 2023
- as B-P, was a lieutenant general in the British Army, writer, and founder ... Baden-Powell joined the British Army in 1876. He was posted in India ...20 KB (2,990 words) - 03:11, 15 December 2022
- river delta meets the sea, it borders India to the west, north, and east ... Bengalis were among the first in British India to benefit from English ...30 KB (4,435 words) - 03:31, 17 September 2023
- |place_of_birth= Calcutta, India |date_of_death= December 24, 1863 ... Thackeray was born in Calcutta, India, where his father, Richmond ...15 KB (2,180 words) - 11:11, 10 May 2023
- fewer than the lower house (the British House of Lords is an exception). ... In ancient India, during the Vedic civilization, there are mentions ...32 KB (4,950 words) - 13:21, 11 March 2023
- | location = Kuchwada, Bhopal State, British India ... an Indian spiritual teacher. He lived in India and in other countries including ...28 KB (4,136 words) - 03:34, 1 October 2023
- the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, and India on the northwest, with the ... been in use in English since the time of British colonial rule. ...33 KB (4,741 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- southern Pacific Ocean. The islands are a British overseas territory (formerly ... on July 3, 1767, by the crew of the British sloop HMS Swallow, and was ...17 KB (2,562 words) - 06:19, 24 November 2022
- Since the creation of the separate states of India and Pakistan in ... high and both possess nuclear capability, India since 1974 and Pakistan since ...51 KB (7,827 words) - 00:17, 28 July 2023
- In 1889 the British developed a smokeless powder using a combination ... Gunpowder arrived in India perhaps as early as the mid-1200s, when ...24 KB (3,604 words) - 17:15, 12 July 2023
- During the nineteenth century, when the British sought out Qatar and ... In 1868, at the request of Qatari nobles, the British negotiated the ...17 KB (2,415 words) - 16:36, 29 January 2024
- Examples in this category include the British Raj, Egypt, the Dutch East ... peoples as the Hittites, the Incas and the British, although the term colonialism ...36 KB (5,415 words) - 07:40, 14 January 2023
- fourth largest metropolitan population in India and one of the largest metropolitan ... The British established the city in the seventeenth century, developing ...44 KB (6,123 words) - 14:52, 5 December 2023
- was the first ruler of ancient Bharata (India), after the famed Mahabharata ... The British author H. G. Wells (1866-1946) wrote of Ashoka: "In ...35 KB (5,661 words) - 04:44, 18 August 2023
- During the nineteenth century, when successive British governments ... between the Irish Republican Army and the British Government, these attacks ...32 KB (4,882 words) - 18:46, 23 March 2023
- Swaminarayan was born Ghanshyam Pande in Chhapaiya, Uttar Pradesh ... near Ayodhya, in a Hindi speaking region in India. Born in the Brahmin or ...36 KB (5,036 words) - 16:42, 6 December 2023
- happening again, the newly constituted British colonial authorities decreed ... resisting the occupation of their land by British settlers, and the whole ...24 KB (3,759 words) - 09:40, 11 March 2023
- | birthplace = Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India ... Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie Kt. (June 19, 1947 - ) is an Indian-born ...35 KB (5,157 words) - 01:51, 23 December 2022
- city, however, was developed chiefly under British rule in the nineteenth century ... and amongst the earliest established in British India, founded in 1840. Since ...34 KB (4,736 words) - 20:15, 21 January 2023
- with the French in their struggle with the British both Tippu Sultan and Haidar ... nature of Hindu-Muslim relations in India. He was the only eighteenth ...44 KB (6,987 words) - 23:40, 30 April 2023
- the mercenary pirates who preyed on British vessels laden with gold ... Indentured workers were brought from India to replace the slaves as ...28 KB (4,021 words) - 00:49, 9 November 2022
- provided for public education; for the British public school see Independent ... agencies as part of public education. The British equivalent is the "state ...32 KB (4,665 words) - 18:08, 14 April 2023
- types of colonies that existed in the British Empire during its height ... which were ruled more directly by the British. They were founded by trading ...19 KB (2,837 words) - 07:42, 13 January 2023
- United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, British India | deathdate = mf ... reflected in her writings. Varma witnessed India both before and after independence ...33 KB (4,286 words) - 22:07, 30 October 2023
- |Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand ... * Günther, A. C. L. G. 1864. The Reptiles of British India. London: ...13 KB (1,863 words) - 00:46, 18 November 2022
- was a long period of prosperity for the British people, as profits gained ... existed, not least of all how the British treated their colonial subjects ...30 KB (4,408 words) - 20:11, 3 May 2023
- of 65 lakh (6.5 million), making it India's third-most populous ... During the British Raj, Bangalore developed as a center for colonial ...48 KB (6,769 words) - 03:28, 17 September 2023
- 3, 1867 – December 14, 1947) was a British statesman and was elected ... Secretary), Lord Birkenhead (Secretary for India) and Arthur Balfour (Lord ...18 KB (2,603 words) - 18:42, 14 October 2022
- Samuel Butler (December 4, 1835 - June 18, 1902) was a British writer ... he emigrated to New Zealand, regarded as a British colony since a fairly legal ...14 KB (2,261 words) - 02:22, 23 December 2022
- these. He belonged to a generation of British actors who, honored at home ... of E. M. Forster's A Passage to India, part of his acclaimed collaboration ...26 KB (4,059 words) - 05:09, 17 June 2023
- waters while trying to find a route to India. At that time the Western ... Piracy flourished in the area because of British seaports such as Nelson ...13 KB (1,964 words) - 18:09, 14 November 2021
- role in promoting Buddhism in northern India. Evidence of the importance ... away of the Buddha. Emperor Ashoka in India had been a contemporary of ...16 KB (2,446 words) - 05:50, 11 August 2023
- Founded by the British in 1781 and named for King George III of the ... III when the city was recaptured by the British in 1812. It is situated ...22 KB (3,061 words) - 20:14, 13 December 2023
- ) refers to India's smallest state in terms of area and the fourth ... colonial possessions in the world), until India took over in 1961. ...39 KB (5,868 words) - 08:05, 24 January 2023
- of West Bengal. It is located in eastern India on the east bank of the River ... Kolkata was named the capital of British India in 1772, although the ...53 KB (7,578 words) - 04:08, 4 March 2023
- Kot Massacre in 1846, to be succeeded by an India-sponsored king in 1951. Reforms ... Empire (322–185 B.C.E.), of northern India. The oldest firmly dated ...24 KB (3,331 words) - 17:13, 5 October 2022
- The British Empire is the most extensive empire in world history and ... and Myanmar would collectively be known as British India. ...59 KB (8,891 words) - 02:41, 22 November 2023
- the Ramayana. The role of kings in ancient India was often described in terms ... groups, particularly those in eastern India, have identified Sita as ...19 KB (3,150 words) - 22:35, 29 January 2023
- sustain liberal democracy in the former British colonies. ... eighteenth and nineteenth centuries of the British Empire lead to the expansion ...25 KB (3,771 words) - 18:08, 27 July 2023
- to the tomato and potato and is native to India and Sri Lanka. ... of shapes, sizes, and colors is grown in India and elsewhere in Asia. Larger ...16 KB (2,414 words) - 23:58, 12 February 2024
- them as a base for voyages between Arabia, India, and Africa. Unguja offered ... starts, control came into the hands of the British Empire; part of the political ...19 KB (2,660 words) - 05:43, 13 June 2023
- spiritual practices that originated in India, where it remains a vibrant ... spiritual practices that originated in India, where it remains a vibrant ...28 KB (4,293 words) - 11:10, 25 May 2023
- involved in the trade network between India and the Mediterranean. ... system that linked the Roman Empire and India. This change took place around ...22 KB (3,389 words) - 07:18, 16 June 2023
- Hope, and in 1498, Vasco da Gama reached India. In 1500, Pedro Álvares ... The possibility of a sea route around Africa to India and the rest ...34 KB (5,157 words) - 00:26, 12 April 2023
- 1st Earl of Iddesleigh 1818-1887, was a British statesman who served under ... in America he chalked up a 5,000 pound (British sterling) telegram bill. ...15 KB (2,368 words) - 18:37, 14 October 2022
- in the United States. For example, Black British men are significantly more ... According to the UK 2001 census, Black British males were around 50 ...21 KB (3,227 words) - 12:55, 7 February 2023
- there, he tried his first experiments with India rubber. The gum was inexpensive ... His compound at this time consisted of India rubber, lampblack, and magnesia ...19 KB (3,096 words) - 19:08, 4 December 2023
- on the northwest, China to the northeast, India on the east, and has a 650 ... was a part of the pre-partitioned British India and has a long history ...40 KB (5,985 words) - 19:54, 7 March 2024
- James Talboys Wheeler, Early Records of British India (London: Barnes ... * Wheeler, James Talboys. Early Records of British India. London: ...50 KB (6,914 words) - 20:25, 4 January 2024
- Lage Raho Munna Bhai has had a strong cultural impact in India, popularizing ... Praised by the Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh, stating (using ...43 KB (6,480 words) - 05:34, 4 March 2023
- Nightingale, a wealthy and well-connected British couple. Born at the Villa ... Balaklava in the Crimea, where the main British camp was based. ...17 KB (2,605 words) - 17:41, 28 March 2024
- city of Barbados. Established by the British in 1628, a major portion ... British sailors who landed on Barbados, at first to collect water ...20 KB (2,790 words) - 23:06, 20 November 2023
- people that they could take on the British, and win. The colonial system ... visiting Egypt, Ceylon, Pakistan, and India discussing self-determination ...19 KB (2,818 words) - 10:13, 11 March 2023
- |placeofbirth=Nadiad, Gujarat, British India |placeofdeath=Mumbai, ... 15, 1950), a political and social leader of India, played a major role in the ...64 KB (9,693 words) - 19:34, 15 September 2022
- C.E.. The vast majority are found in South India, written on plates of copper ... found by the Archaeological Survey of India in India are in Tamil language. ...36 KB (5,521 words) - 22:01, 4 February 2023
- Britain and revolutionaries within the 13 British colonies in North America ... Throughout the war, the British were able to use their naval superiority ...40 KB (5,862 words) - 06:46, 25 July 2023
- of a strong architectural influence from India, present in the stupas of ... * Mills, L.A. with appendix by C. O. Blagden. 1925. "British ...14 KB (2,135 words) - 02:40, 11 March 2023
- The Tāj Mahal is a mausoleum located in Agra, India. The Mughal emperor ... The charbagh garden was introduced to India by the first Mughal emperor ...30 KB (4,795 words) - 03:53, 27 February 2023
- and came under control of the Dutch West India Company in the 1600s. ... and south of the U.S. Virgin Islands and British Virgin Islands. These are ...29 KB (4,221 words) - 04:34, 11 March 2023
- *India|British British India *Newfoundland Newfoundland ... the First World War. A joint Imperial British and French operation was ...37 KB (5,841 words) - 21:41, 25 June 2022
- The Himalayas stretch across six nations: Bhutan, China, India, Nepal ... The Himalayas stretch across six nations: Bhutan, China, India, Nepal ...37 KB (5,509 words) - 23:27, 18 December 2020
- of Great Britain and Ireland, of the British Dominions beyond the Seas ... throne longer than anyone in English or British history. During the long ...38 KB (5,885 words) - 23:54, 12 February 2024
- the first cat was brought to England by a British soldier, in 1868, after ... mid 1830s, and labeled as Patrie, domestica India. This indicates the breed ...12 KB (1,817 words) - 07:07, 14 June 2023
- Argentina, France, Germany, Cuba, and the British West Indies. He also acquired ... Argentina, France, Germany, Cuba, and the British West Indies; the negotiation ...10 KB (1,420 words) - 06:55, 8 April 2024
- from a small steel manufacturing company in India and expanded internationally ... in the Churu district of Rajasthan, India, in an Agrawal family. During ...21 KB (2,936 words) - 06:14, 12 August 2023
- PC (June 4, 1833–March 25, 1913) was a British army officer. He served ... rule—it was also brutal. What the British called the "Indian ...19 KB (2,878 words) - 04:34, 18 April 2024
- in the European isles, such as the British Isles, Sardinia and Sicily—means ... as part of a continent. In this sense the British Isles are part of Europe ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 19:07, 19 May 2020
- was a decorated and at times controversial British Army officer and creator ... Wingate was born February 26, 1903 in Naini Tal, India to a military ...43 KB (6,762 words) - 01:10, 18 November 2022
- Fishes of the Sea, and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General ... before being recruited to the army by a British colonial army officer.Fred ...36 KB (5,445 words) - 21:36, 25 July 2021
- leaders in the fight for freedom in India and its struggle for independence ... discriminatory laws and situations. In India, he campaigned to eliminate ...56 KB (8,938 words) - 15:04, 16 June 2023
- was given an officer's post in the British Indian Army and then joined ... the Indus Waters Treaty with archrival India to resolve disputes regarding ...18 KB (2,831 words) - 14:50, 7 February 2023
- | birth_place = Darjeeling, Bengal Presidency, British India ... Vivien Leigh was born as Vivian Mary Hartley in Darjeeling, British ...25 KB (3,932 words) - 17:29, 16 August 2023
- included starring as Emma Peel in the British TV series The Avengers ... worked in engineering, and moved to India to work for the railway to ...38 KB (5,401 words) - 11:54, 29 January 2024
- when he was contemplating the invasion of India, about 330 B.C.E. It is said ... spices--particularly cinnamon--brought from India largely by Indian vessels ...22 KB (3,173 words) - 21:53, 30 January 2023
- |birth_place =Gwalior, Gwalior State, British India | death_date = ... August 16, 2018) was the Prime Minister of India, briefly in 1996, and from ...47 KB (6,896 words) - 18:41, 19 August 2023
- 18 miles (31 km) off the southern coast of India. It is often popularly referred ... Colonized by Portugal and the Dutch, the British gained control in 1796. ...42 KB (6,170 words) - 15:45, 27 April 2023
- city. Merchants from Persia, China, India, Africa, and Europe were ... king rules an unnamed island "between India and China" (in modern ...16 KB (2,579 words) - 15:31, 30 April 2023
- then the Persians, struck Basra and the British East India Company made ... In July 1897, Mubarak invited the British to deploy gunboats along ...18 KB (2,563 words) - 21:19, 29 December 2023
- married Captain Henry Sherwood and moved to India, she converted to evangelical ... The Sherwoods returned to England after a decade in India and, building ...47 KB (7,022 words) - 16:12, 7 November 2022
- Maritime Peace Treaty" with the British government. However, in ... Dubai's geographical proximity to India made it an important ...35 KB (5,297 words) - 17:16, 12 February 2024
- van Riebeeck on behalf of the Dutch East India Company. For most of the ... as a stop on the route to Australia and India. The Dutch East India Company ...35 KB (4,809 words) - 15:13, 27 April 2023
- |s1 = British India |flag_s1 = Imperial-India-Blue-Ensign.svg ... the first Representative Assembly of British India, with 144 members, was ...57 KB (8,382 words) - 23:21, 21 October 2023
- The first sculptures in India date back to the Indus Valley civilization ... During the 2nd to 1st century B.C.E. in far northern India, in what ...27 KB (4,032 words) - 17:31, 25 January 2023
- to Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, peninsular India, and Sri Lanka (McDiarmid ... Snakes: A Natural History, 2nd edition. British Museum (Natural History ...19 KB (2,781 words) - 19:53, 7 May 2020
- The first phase saw the domination of Hindu culture imported from ... annual trading fleets from China and India, and also traders from further ...33 KB (4,723 words) - 14:30, 29 March 2024
- in partnership with the government of India to produce an economical ... of weaving machine, which was exported to India and Southeast Asia. Suzuki ...32 KB (4,585 words) - 00:32, 27 February 2023
- At first, Prester John was imagined to be in India, with tales of ... with its various tales of proselytizing in India, which date back to at least ...29 KB (4,428 words) - 22:39, 30 November 2022
- Image:British Museum Lalita.jpg|Parvati as Lalita with Ganesha and ... *[http://www.festivalsofindia.in/teej Festivals of India] ...16 KB (2,503 words) - 08:58, 18 November 2022
- Richard Jones (1790 – January 26, 1855) was a British economist ... political economy and history at the East India College at Haileybury, Hertfordshire ...8 KB (1,180 words) - 01:42, 14 December 2022
- of the countries south of China, east of India and north of Australia. South ... and Islam, the only region outside India in which Hinduism spread. ...38 KB (5,260 words) - 15:15, 27 April 2023
- provided natural barriers to settlement. British and Dutch navigators first ... in March 1688 by William Dampier of the British ship Cygnet, who found it ...27 KB (3,857 words) - 21:39, 10 December 2023
- style of Indian epics. Calligraphy in India was especially influenced ... Bhasa but is also used in monasteries of India, Tibet, coastline China, ...19 KB (2,750 words) - 18:29, 25 November 2023
- ruled large parts of southern and central India between the sixth and twelfth ... important milestone in the history of South India and a golden age in the history ...41 KB (5,966 words) - 01:14, 4 December 2023
- centuries, and later servants from India and China, have resulted ... ===First British seizure=== Over the next century, the island was seized ...26 KB (3,654 words) - 02:55, 26 February 2023
- *On British Freedom (1923) *Landmarks in Nineteenth-Century Painting (1927) ... * Output, prices, and the distribution of consumption in rural India ...13 KB (1,975 words) - 22:10, 7 January 2024
- its war with Japan. She also toured Africa, India, China, and Burma, compiling ... General Harold Alexander, commander of British troops in the Middle East; ...15 KB (2,324 words) - 22:31, 10 December 2023
- Gulf (a vital link in Portuguese trade with India). He expanded commercial ... civilizations of Europe to its west and India and Islamic Central Asia ...23 KB (3,547 words) - 18:36, 22 December 2022
- less than 1; but an improper fraction (US, British or Australian) or top-heavy ... In 150 B.C.E. Jain mathematicians in India wrote the "Sthananga ...29 KB (4,353 words) - 14:36, 22 January 2023
- Language 32 (1) (Jan-Mar 1956): 5, India as a Lingustic Area. quote ... before integrating the region into British India. Similarly, the Tamil ...56 KB (8,191 words) - 16:28, 13 January 2024
- The Republic of India (Hindi: भारत गणराज्य ... and the United Nations (as part of British India). In 1974, India conducted ...64 KB (9,559 words) - 13:04, 4 March 2024
- potential and that it had outgrown its British mother country. ... quot; of the origin of Vedic culture in India, which has been criticized ...38 KB (5,665 words) - 04:36, 22 March 2024
- of the temple was gifted by the British Imperial Government. The ... saints and satsangis of Kutch residing in India and abroad, have resolved ...48 KB (6,849 words) - 14:17, 28 April 2023
- a quite chauvinistic point of view. The British Empire in particular was ... Mercier and subsequent British translators also had trouble with the ...19 KB (2,945 words) - 21:07, 4 October 2022
- Pakistan's partition from India in 1947 had arisen from the ... During the Partition of India, Pakistan, as a country, gained independence ...42 KB (6,477 words) - 03:31, 17 September 2023
- Madani, with whose encouragement he left India in 1910, to come the West ... Khan returned to India at the end of 1926. While there, he chose the ...13 KB (2,071 words) - 19:28, 6 September 2022
- (Deccan), presently Andhra Pradesh, India. The family had a long-standing ... in the province now called Madhya Pradesh, India. Late in 1920, Maududi came ...26 KB (4,137 words) - 17:08, 23 December 2022
- long as he was harassing the French, the British authorities were happy to ... encouraged to harass the French by the British Governor of Navis. By 1690 ...26 KB (4,192 words) - 11:08, 10 May 2023
- 29, 1758 – October 21, 1805) was a British admiral famous for his participation ... reputation make him an iconic figure among British heroes. His famous words ...22 KB (3,598 words) - 15:08, 2 February 2024
- Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton was viceroy of India from 1876 to 1880. His daughter ... in the development of the Crown Colony of British Columbia and wrote with ...12 KB (1,914 words) - 18:21, 12 February 2024
- 12, 1866 – November 9, 1937) was a British politician and three times ... Australia and New Zealand in 1906 and to India several times. ...40 KB (6,096 words) - 00:34, 8 December 2022
- such as those of Greece, Rome, Persia, India, and China, as they developed ... installed by an insulator, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.]] ...8 KB (1,121 words) - 01:54, 10 April 2023
- The earliest settlers were probably Tamils from southern India. Today ... hegemony over Maldivian affairs. But the British expelled the Dutch from ...34 KB (4,966 words) - 06:36, 5 November 2022
- studies of the human body, now at the British Museum, proves that before ... richest merchants and local agent for the British East India Company. The ...16 KB (2,390 words) - 04:03, 3 May 2024
- Sikhism is a religion that began in sixteenth-century Northern India ... Granth Sahib scripture in Amritsar, British India.jpg|250px|thumb|right ...38 KB (5,913 words) - 22:00, 29 January 2023
- writer, philosopher, and social thinker from British India, commonly referred to as Manilal in literary circles. He was an influential figure in nineteenth ...44 KB (6,296 words) - 21:42, 30 October 2023
- world's oldest coin, some argue that India's karshapanam holds ... believe various coinage practices reached India by means of Persian trade ...23 KB (3,753 words) - 22:27, 7 January 2024
- The area was placed under the charter of the British East Africa Company ... in 1903, formed a committee to look into British East Africa, in particular ...18 KB (2,666 words) - 23:11, 24 March 2024
- one of the twenty-two official languages of India. Including non-native speakers ... and the third most spoken language in India after Hindi and Bengali. ...39 KB (5,358 words) - 22:05, 13 January 2024
- especially mid-Pennsylvania—many of the British and Irish settlers already there were meeting their new German neighbors, who happened to ...12 KB (1,787 words) - 00:48, 17 April 2023
- to Kolkata, where he took a job with a British advertising agency, D. J ... and Jawaharlal Nehru's Discovery of India. He also worked on a children ...43 KB (6,599 words) - 02:30, 21 April 2023
- partition of Germany after World War II and India in 1947 into Hindu and Muslim ... movement, but severely restricted by the British mandate government in Palestine ...35 KB (5,240 words) - 19:39, 16 April 2023
- College was the best college in Southern India at that time. Most of the ... left for Calcutta, capital of what was then British India. ...35 KB (5,365 words) - 19:55, 24 November 2023
- city did not achieve importance until the British began to develop it as a ... the city was connected to the rest of British India by railway line. Public ...42 KB (6,146 words) - 08:28, 28 February 2023
- secret societies. Stories of the Count in India and at Masonic meetings can ... * Saint Alban, late third or early fourth century, the first British martyr ...17 KB (2,637 words) - 08:29, 10 January 2024
- tropical and semi-tropical areas, including India, Australia, Japan, West Africa ... States comes from Jamaica, followed by India, Africa, and China. According ...24 KB (3,593 words) - 22:30, 1 January 2023
- in what is now Tsurumi Ward in 1862. Four British subjects were on their way ... and Shimbashi in Tokyo. In 1887, a British merchant, Samuel Cocking ...20 KB (2,678 words) - 11:13, 25 May 2023
- was unable to receive royalties for the British edition of the book. ... a long lost grandfather, a member of British aristocracy. He then learns ...16 KB (2,561 words) - 06:42, 1 April 2024
- began in Bengal, then spread across India by 1820. It extended as far ... the strain, and reached Bangladesh in 1963, India in 1964, and the USSR in 1966. ...22 KB (3,244 words) - 14:30, 11 February 2022
- laborers from the Dutch East Indies and India, as well as China and the ... colony of Suriname conquered from the British, while leaving the small ...30 KB (4,282 words) - 12:07, 17 April 2024
- During his protests in India, Gandhi led the famous salt march to ... used: for example vacuum salt produced by British Salt in Middlewich has 57 ...16 KB (2,377 words) - 15:04, 27 April 2023
- workforce. The Enclosure movement and the British Agricultural Revolution ... jpg|right|thumb|300px|A 1623 Dutch East India Company [[Bond (finance) ...43 KB (6,275 words) - 12:45, 1 February 2024
- What followed, Ireland's history of oppression under British ... #039;s subsequent experience of subjection to British rule. ...16 KB (2,466 words) - 01:09, 2 July 2020
- Ireland from June 20, 1837, and Empress of India from January 1, 1877, until ... The reign of Victoria was marked by a great expansion of the British ...55 KB (8,699 words) - 23:51, 17 November 2022
- was King of Great Britain, Ireland, the British Dominions beyond the Seas ... as queen. Edward knew that the ministry of British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin ...39 KB (6,106 words) - 02:44, 17 January 2023
- who was an intelligence officer with the British East India Company's ... to prospect for oil cheaply to a British engineer. During the Qajar ...27 KB (4,140 words) - 03:59, 7 December 2022
- The province is located along the India-China sea trade route. By ... then, from the eighteenth century, with British and Dutch colonial interests ...19 KB (2,798 words) - 07:32, 14 June 2023
- of "sovereignty and integrity of India, the security of the State ... Gandhi famously stated in 1975, that All India Radio is "a Government ...23 KB (3,543 words) - 10:49, 11 April 2024
- Melanesian-Polynesian Fijians, a legacy of British colonial times when thousands ... to find the Great Southern Continent. British explorer Captain James Cook ...27 KB (3,980 words) - 19:46, 26 March 2024
- had paid £40,000 for his commission. The British feared Russian expansion ... In the 1840s, Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston and other British ...22 KB (3,405 words) - 06:24, 11 January 2024
- Spanish in Manila, and Armenians and Muslims from India were already actively trading in the port by the 1690s, when the French and English British East ...22 KB (2,966 words) - 03:09, 5 March 2023
- of Sri Lanka and Indira Gandhi of India. Golda Meir rose from a humble ... her elder sister Sheyna emigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine in 1921. ...15 KB (2,415 words) - 06:44, 1 January 2024
- the people of Europe or the people of Northern India. Suzuki subscribed ... different from that of Indian Buddhists. In India, the tradition of the mendicant ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 07:35, 12 January 2024
- professionally as T. E. Lawrence, was a British soldier renowned especially ... in his assignment to a remote base in British India in late 1926, where he ...33 KB (5,295 words) - 00:58, 21 April 2023
- The British philosopher, mathematician, and professor of logic, John Venn (1834–1923), introduced the Venn diagram in his paper, “On the ...10 KB (1,551 words) - 17:01, 3 May 2023
- pumpkins include the United States, Mexico, India, and China (PP 2007; WHF 2008). ... yaqtin. In South Asian countries like India, pumpkin is cooked with butter ...20 KB (2,919 words) - 14:19, 2 July 2022
- person from person. His policies polarized India and may have directly contributed ... but which exploded and completely changed India after his death. ...35 KB (5,433 words) - 17:51, 22 August 2023
- outdoor concerts for the troops in Egypt, India, and Burma during the war ... Royal Army, Royal Navy, and the Royal British Legion, as well as the Battle ...44 KB (6,146 words) - 18:00, 3 May 2023
- between the imperialist designs of the British and Russian empires. During ... Line divided Pashtun regions, and the British India took control of today ...61 KB (8,656 words) - 18:55, 23 March 2023
- the Bank of England, the Reserve Bank of India, the Bank of Japan, the Deutsche ... [[image:Reserve-Bank-of-India.jpg|thumb|240px|left|Reserve Bank of ...30 KB (4,733 words) - 23:55, 3 December 2023
- from as far away as Persia (now Iran) and India. They built a series of highly ... East African coast in 1498 on his voyage to India. By 1506, the Portuguese ...29 KB (4,092 words) - 04:27, 27 February 2023
- in his voyage to find a northwestern passage to India. Throughout the ... low-quality tinned foodstuffs, such as the British "Bully Beef" ...12 KB (1,887 words) - 19:25, 25 November 2023
- capsicum fruits, regardless of their color. In British English, the fruit is simply referred to as a "pepper," whereas in many Commonwealth ...13 KB (1,956 words) - 18:58, 11 January 2023
- The U.S., Australia, Japan, Brazil, Mexico, India and other markets exhibit ... was Imperial Airways, which became BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation ...33 KB (4,986 words) - 07:02, 16 June 2023
- The name Kampala derives from the British name for the area, "the ... Lugard constructed a fort for the British East Africa Company in 1890 ...20 KB (2,883 words) - 07:05, 28 February 2023
- they adopted the Gregorian Calendar. The British, for example, did not adopt ... In India, New Year's day has several variations depending on ...24 KB (3,673 words) - 09:31, 11 March 2023
- The Boer Wars were fought between British and Dutch settlers of the ... bring the whole of Southern Africa under British rule. Because of this, ...38 KB (5,998 words) - 05:19, 17 November 2023
- who led Uganda to independence from the British colonial administration ... While attending a meeting of the British Commonwealth in 1971, he ...20 KB (3,066 words) - 11:05, 10 March 2023
- BP p.l.c., previously known as British Petroleum, is the third largest ... oil-field concession in Iran. In 1914, the British government purchased a majority ...36 KB (5,440 words) - 05:21, 26 August 2023
- movement in 1959, Tenzin Gyatso fled to India, where he was active in establishing ... him. Consequently, he fled to Dharamsala, India, on March 17 of that year ...36 KB (5,468 words) - 03:45, 30 April 2023
- The British and the French took the view that it was up to them to ... any intention "to make its colonists British citizens" yet saw colonies ...21 KB (3,201 words) - 11:50, 3 May 2023
- spiritual supremacy over China and India. In 1401, during the Muromachi ... which sought to establish a permanent British presence in Peking and open ...21 KB (3,156 words) - 22:30, 29 January 2023
- with international institutions, British and Scandinavian bilateral ... His father held influential roles in British India and internationally and ...29 KB (4,230 words) - 22:56, 30 November 2022
- As a military officer, Baden-Powell was stationed in India and Africa ... of-mafeking/ The Siege of Mafeking] British Battles.com. Retrieved May ...39 KB (5,942 words) - 22:31, 20 November 2023
- ===Steelmaking in India and Sri Lanka=== steel was being produced in southern India also by what Europeans would ...29 KB (4,547 words) - 04:40, 28 April 2023
- Bonaparte. The island was taken by the British navy in 1810, which used ... Local food and music blend influences from Africa, India, China and ...22 KB (3,300 words) - 00:08, 22 August 2022
- is remembered for his rebuff of the British trade ambassador, George ... The proposed cultural exchange between the British Empire and the Qing Empire ...28 KB (4,243 words) - 00:03, 15 April 2023
- The production of zinc metal was very common in ancient India. Many ... being accomplished as early as 1000 C.E. in India and China. In the West, impure ...18 KB (2,716 words) - 06:07, 13 June 2023
- to London to be closer to the centre of British musical life, and Edward ... establishing Elgar as the pre-eminent British composer of his generation ...21 KB (3,203 words) - 18:23, 12 February 2024
- beliefs. For example, the caste-system of India is based on an order of ... #039;s Witnesses, and the Parsi minority in India. Many religions require both ...16 KB (2,425 words) - 21:17, 26 May 2015
- of this activity is the Ilgachuz Range in British Columbia, which was created ... US Pacific Northwest. The Deccan Traps of India are the result of the emergence ...11 KB (1,444 words) - 16:21, 25 January 2023
- repulsing a counterattack by the British Expeditionary Force at Arras. ... a string of defeats at the hands of British Commonwealth forces under ...24 KB (3,681 words) - 21:24, 20 March 2024
- South Asian nation situated between India and China. A strategic location ... and the Treaty of Sinchula between British India and Bhutan was signed ...39 KB (5,985 words) - 03:39, 1 October 2023
- the major powers of the area, China, India, Afghanistan, Tibet and, Pakistan. ... point in the trade route between Punjab, India, and Central Asia. From around ...43 KB (6,368 words) - 05:33, 4 March 2023
- on the reform of the Civil Service in British India and later in the United ... in most countries are copied from the British system. And the origin of ...21 KB (3,072 words) - 15:27, 4 February 2023
- lived in the Himalayan region of Nepal, India, and Tibet have believed ... the Calcutta Statesmen. Writing about a British expedition into the Himalayas ...14 KB (2,210 words) - 09:58, 23 May 2023
- countries of the world with a history as British territories or colonies ... states), New Zealand, South Africa, India, Israel, Sri Lanka, Malaysia ...32 KB (5,079 words) - 00:10, 8 January 2024
- lawyer handling the legal affairs of the British embassy in ParisMaugham ... served in France as a member of the British Red Cross's so-called ...29 KB (4,504 words) - 22:03, 3 May 2023
- In 1872, British soft drink maker Hiram Codd of Camberwell, south east London, designed and patented a bottle designed specifically for carbonated ...10 KB (1,456 words) - 14:41, 28 April 2020
- The Partition of India in 1947 was a traumatic event in South Asian history that followed the independence of the region from British colonial ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 19:19, 11 August 2022
- includes Jammu and Kashmir administered by India (comprising Jammu, Kashmir ... Since 1947, when Pakistan separated from India, the region has had a Muslim ...52 KB (7,879 words) - 07:24, 5 October 2022
- known today. He was and is unusual among British Prime Ministers for having ... own interest in the region contributed to British desire to promote the colonization ...28 KB (4,114 words) - 23:17, 11 January 2023
- out of Liverpool and Bristol. Other British cities also profited from ... stiff fines for any slave found aboard a British ship. That same year the ...45 KB (6,987 words) - 14:55, 27 April 2023
- In 1819, Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, an official with the British ... invaded Malaya and attacked Singapore. The British, despite having more troops ...31 KB (4,282 words) - 00:11, 29 December 2023
- He also spent some of his years as a boy in India. Upon his return to England ... Grant holds a significant place in British art history as an innovator ...10 KB (1,594 words) - 17:21, 12 February 2024
- been applied only with limited success in India and Sri Lanka. ... revolts, the first two against the British government and the latter ...30 KB (4,669 words) - 02:44, 8 January 2024
- on apabhramshas (dialects of North India that deviate from the norm ... as one of the twenty-three official languages of India. ...53 KB (7,869 words) - 13:44, 3 May 2023
- 29, 1904 – April 6, 1996) was a British-American actress and singer ... her as Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). ...27 KB (3,873 words) - 22:37, 26 July 2022
- , Order of New Zealand (ONZ), Order of the British Empire (KBE) (July 20, 1919 – ... Hillary was part of a British reconnaissance expedition to Mount Everest ...37 KB (5,516 words) - 18:14, 12 February 2024
- 20, 1784 – October 18, 1865) was a British statesman who served twice ... for the benefit of the governed, not of British industry. Commercial interests ...66 KB (10,174 words) - 15:23, 25 January 2023
- The Robinsons spent the following two years in India, Austin tutoring ... Robinson joined the British Academy in 1958 and was elected a fellow ...11 KB (1,560 words) - 02:04, 9 February 2023
- in localized multi-religious areas such as India and North American cities ... electoral status in the last years of British India. This story is an example ...33 KB (5,242 words) - 16:49, 26 February 2022
- As with almost every major religious text in India no firm date can ... whose popularity would spread throughout India. It was meant to be included ...36 KB (5,510 words) - 03:32, 1 October 2023
- When the British surveyed British Guiana in 1840, they included the ... the arbitration award was invalid. The British and Guyanese rejected this ...31 KB (4,442 words) - 05:41, 27 July 2023
- is higher than the percentage of Hindus in India, making it the single most ... Bordered by China (including Tibet) to the north, and by India to ...47 KB (6,833 words) - 16:19, 11 November 2022
- silks have been known and used in China, India, and Europe from early times ... Over 30 countries produce silk. The major ones are China (54%) and ...35 KB (5,365 words) - 20:11, 21 April 2023
- it. In dry places, such as parts of Africa, India, and the Middle East, rain ... Vancouver, British Columbia could be considered the world's capital ...11 KB (1,714 words) - 00:07, 8 December 2022
- of the famine was perceived by many to be British policy, which reduced the ... to feed a family, was potatoes. A British government report carried ...33 KB (5,040 words) - 13:17, 6 March 2024
- transformed during the Second World War. British nurses of the Army Nursing ... *de Bary, William Theodore. The Buddhist Tradition: In India, China ...27 KB (3,663 words) - 10:11, 11 March 2023
- sea off the Malabar coast near Calicut in Western India. ... ports of Asia, he proceeded westward from India to Hormuz. A part of the ...33 KB (5,055 words) - 06:00, 13 June 2023
- (November 15, 1708 – May 1, 1778) was a British Whig statesman who achieved ... He is credited with "the birth of the British Empire", which made ...49 KB (8,091 words) - 14:59, 10 October 2020
- In early India India, Fa Xian, a Chinese Buddhist monk who traveled ... Other hospitals sprang up in London and other British cities over ...34 KB (4,867 words) - 16:01, 25 April 2020
- In British English, the word 'asphalt' refers to a mixture ... roadwork in Chakdaha, in the state of West Bengal, India.]] ...11 KB (1,560 words) - 23:49, 11 January 2023
- including parts of Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand. The disaster ... the tsunami) as far away as Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand ...44 KB (6,499 words) - 06:40, 13 June 2023
- in the southern coast of Tamil Nadu, India. Catamarans were used by ... found himself on the southeastern coast of India, in Tamil Nadu. He was the ...20 KB (3,218 words) - 17:50, 30 November 2023
- most significant conflict was between the British and the French, who from ... Even when the British took over, though, French settlers tended to ...18 KB (2,530 words) - 23:24, 1 August 2023
- American missionaries in the field than British. The SVM funded schools ... went on to organize meetings in Tambaram, India (1938), and in Ghana in 1958 ...11 KB (1,626 words) - 03:51, 3 May 2024
- most of his first six years as a child in southern India. He was educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh and the University of Edinburgh. In 1895 ...12 KB (1,864 words) - 15:58, 7 May 2023
- accrued from economic trade with Rome, India, and elsewhere, but also ... 74 by the late Dr Nevill Chittick. London: British Institute in Eastern Africa ...13 KB (2,015 words) - 07:23, 23 August 2023
- William Penn founded the Province of Pennsylvania as a British North ... The Delaware River watershed was claimed by the British based on the ...35 KB (4,904 words) - 17:13, 26 March 2023
- Kerala refers to a state on the Malabar Coast of southwestern India ... and unemployment rates rank among India's highest. The extent ...79 KB (10,302 words) - 22:30, 3 March 2023
- until 1940), as did the Soviet Union. British women over 30 and all German ... 1949 following the Chinese Revolution and India in 1950 after independence ...16 KB (2,464 words) - 23:28, 17 May 2023
- activity, it spread throughout the British Empire, the United States ... and, in his travels throughout the British Isles beginning in the late ...28 KB (4,180 words) - 10:35, 10 March 2023
- including the Louvre, in Paris, the British Museum, and the Gemäldegalerie ... *The British Museum in London, was founded in 1753 and opened to the ...27 KB (4,097 words) - 02:36, 11 March 2023
- with the partition of Bengal and India in 1947, becoming the eastern ... London using a Boeing 707 chartered from British Caledonian. A Fokker F27 ...23 KB (3,204 words) - 17:42, 31 October 2023
- or ideologies with caste systems, such as India and Hinduism, thereby offend ... movements have included the effort in India, led by Gandhi, to free India ...29 KB (4,520 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- treating suspected typhoid originating in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Thailand ... * Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (British prince consort and Queen Victoria ...16 KB (2,376 words) - 11:25, 18 April 2023
- taken by the Levelers, a leftover from the British period of Divine Right was ... of Edward III in 1327. In 2006, all British soldiers executed for cowardice ...35 KB (5,395 words) - 13:20, 11 March 2023
- hundred years later, the prime minister of India wrote the Arthashastra, a ... and codes were changed daily. The British, with help from the Poles ...16 KB (2,298 words) - 12:20, 21 January 2023
- were: China, 34,100 million metric tons; India, 6,000 million metric tons; ... can help inflammation of any body part]. British Medical Journal 327: 451 ...15 KB (2,208 words) - 21:18, 24 November 2023
- and advisor to the Governor) during British colonial rule. ... In September 2009, Kumaratunga, on a personal visit to Kerala, India ...18 KB (2,650 words) - 01:16, 4 December 2023
- The most famous of the previous challengers was the British adventurer ... In 1951, a British expedition led by Eric Shipton and including Edmund ...31 KB (4,841 words) - 17:06, 10 November 2022
- Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser, India's Prime Minister Pandit ... confiscating properties from the British, from Buddhists, from foreigners ...25 KB (3,644 words) - 21:41, 26 February 2023
- by Jutes. They later migrated to the British isles, together with Angles ... and conquered parts of France and the British Isles. But they also excelled ...38 KB (5,763 words) - 21:28, 5 March 2024
- today, with reports from the 2000s from India, Sub-Saharan Africa, and ... In India, human sacrifice is mainly known as Narabali, where nara ...36 KB (5,474 words) - 22:07, 16 August 2022
- for Dutch ships sailing to Eastern Africa, India, and the Far East more than ... and other employees of the Dutch East India Company arrived to establish ...27 KB (3,877 words) - 19:33, 25 November 2023
- (August 26, 1676 – March 18, 1745) was a British statesman who is generally ... making his administration the longest in British history. He used the system ...29 KB (4,445 words) - 00:47, 29 November 2022
- Victoria: extraordinary women of the British Romantic era. (Columbia ... *H. G. Wells (1866–1946); "Fifty years ago, the British polymath ...38 KB (5,454 words) - 00:21, 12 April 2023
- centuries. A celebrated cultural icon in India, he became Asia's first ... , which became part of post-independence India. A Brahmin by birth, Tagore ...50 KB (7,214 words) - 16:18, 7 December 2022
- as "Monty," was an Anglo-Irish British Army officer. He successfully ... Regiment in 1908, first seeing service in India until 1913. ...46 KB (7,157 words) - 15:39, 29 September 2023
- in the cultures that are in modern day India and the surrounding area ... Indus Valley Civilization preserved at the British Museum. The top right one ...40 KB (5,959 words) - 00:36, 27 February 2023
- created by Richard Mulcaster in 1592.The British Library, [http://www.bl ... after the first Sanskrit dictionary in India. The only surviving copy ...22 KB (3,268 words) - 14:12, 29 January 2024
- In 1949 the British government rejected a South African request for ... Early in Mswati's reign he asked British authorities in South ...20 KB (2,991 words) - 14:18, 28 April 2023
- a result of the Islamic conquest) in North India, Hindustani music started ... a result of the Islamic conquest) in North India, Hindustani Music started ...40 KB (6,040 words) - 15:47, 28 November 2023
- outside the mainstream of both Irish and British literature, but he is as ... Member of Parliament (MP) for Mayo in the British House of Commons in London ...19 KB (2,827 words) - 08:08, 23 January 2023
- Bay. For the next century it was used by British and Dutch colonialists and ... Jan Van Riebeeck, of the Dutch East India Company, arrived on the ...18 KB (2,791 words) - 21:08, 16 April 2023
