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| | British Raj - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | At the start of World War II an agreement was reached between the British government and the Indian independence movement whereby India would be granted independence once victory was gained over the Axis Powers, in exchange for India’s full co-operation in the war. | | | An apparently unwitting example of violation of rules against the gathering of people led to the massacre at Jalianwala Bagh in Amritsar in April 1919. | | | A similar catastrophe occurred almost a century later, after Britain had extended its rule across the Indian subcontinent, when 40 million Indians perished from famine amidst the collapse of India's native industries. |
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| | Although this group claimed to represent all of India, it seemed impossible considering the backgrounds of the delegates as well as the approach taken by the group. | | | All of the delegates were of the elite class of Indian society and had been educated at foreign institutions, and were now involved in professions such as law and journalism that were not very common at the time. | | | This act allowed for the silencing of press and for the detention of political activists without a trial. |
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http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~ngpopat/beginnings.htm
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| | The East India Company - Its History and Results by Karl Marx |
| | Most widespread were agreements under which the princes had to maintain (subsidise) the Company’s troops stationed on their territory and agreements which saddled the princes with loans on exorbitant terms. | | | Till 1813 India had been chiefly an exporting country, while it now became an importing one; and in such a quick progression, that already in 1823 the rate of exchange, which had generally been 2/6 per rupee, sunk down to 2/ per rupee. | | | Pitt, they were held in secret and by fraud. |
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| | East India Company, British on Encyclopedia.com |
| | The Worlds of the East India Company.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review) | | | The Worlds of the East India Company.(Book Review) | | | The star in the east: the controversy over Christian missions to India, 1805-1813. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/e/easti1ndb1.asp
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| | A host of young and ardent officers,--Christopher, Young, Powell, Campbell, Jones, Barker, and others,--ably seconded him: death was busy amongst them for months and so paralyzed by disease were the living, that the anchors could scarcely be raised for a retreat to the coast of India. | | | The occupation of the port of Berberah has been advised for many reasons. | | | Commodore Lushington and Dr. Carter met in order to concert some measures for forwarding the plans of a Somali Expedition. |
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http://www.wollamshram.ca/1001/East/east1_preface.htm
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| | Greater India |
| | Siraj's openly forming a French alliance in response gave the British regional commander, Robert Clive, the excuse to arrange an full-scale expedition - the Bengali and French were defeated at Plassey June 23, 1757, insuring BEIC control of India until the Sepoy mutiny just a century later. | | | Anjuvannam was created by a grant from Bhaskara Ravivarman II, the Chera Emperor of Kerala, to Joseph Rabban, the leader of the exceedingly ancient Malabari Jewish community. | | | The Malabari Jewish community continues to exist to the present day, though most of India's Jews have emigrated to Israel and elsewhere. |
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| | British East India Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Pitt's Act was deemed a failure because it was immediately apparent that the boundaries between governmental control and the Company's powers were obscure and highly subject to interpretation. | | | This victory estranged the British and the Mughals, who had been served by Siraj as an autonomous ruler. | | | Company ships were not allowed officially to carry opium to China. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_East_India_Company
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| | Tranquebar : The Danish East India Company 1616 - 1669 |
| | Pessart, who must have felt the place getting too hot for him, denied Leyel access to Dansborg, the fortress at Tranquebar, shutting the gates and refusing to hand over his books. | | | Long before the expeditionary fleet was ready to sail, the ship Øresund was outfitted and ready. | | | Leyel was not, however, to be in charge of the colony for very long; in 1648, a number of his officers led a succesful mutiny against him. |
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| | Chp 3, Part II: A Special Operation |
| | I think that the very history of an organization we call the British Society of Psychic Research (and its very strong American offshoot) is evidence of the fact that today people are not asked to think. | | | In fact Lord Balfour, for over 30 years, was either the head of the British Society of Psychic Research or one of his relatives or close associates was. | | | In England he then created the British Society of Psychic Research, which soon took over most of the higher positions in the British government. |
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| | Trade to Colonization - Historic Dynamics, East India Companies - History, British Colonization, India, African Slave ... |
| | Some historians tried to argue that competition with the French precipitated the battles in South India, but such a view is contradicted by a Frenchman, no less! | | | The conquest of India continued with conclusive defeats of the Marathas in 1818, the Sikhs in 1848 and the annexation of Awadh in 1856. | | | But, had the East Company comprised of "Gentlemen Traders" as some historians have claimed, they could not have switched so easily from trading in Indian Textiles, to trading in Opium for Tea which, in modern language - would surely be described as a form of "drug-running"! |
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| | frontline: the opium kings: Opium Throughout History PBS |
| | Both would try to convince the international delegation of the immoral and evil effects of opium. | | | The British and French renew their hostilities against China in the Second Opium War. | | | British shipping dominates the opium trade out of Calcutta to China. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/heroin/etc/history.html
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| | Opium War: Britain Stole Hong Kong From China |
| | The British then seized Amoy, Tinghai, Chunhai and Ningpo. | | | Rowntree wrote that the British were "in a great hurry to make money out of the East, and the gunboats were found to clear the way quickly. | | | Britain's East India Company would wage three wars on the people of China in order to secure the right to sell opium there. |
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http://www.serendipity.li/wod/hongkong.html
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| | The British East India Company |
| | To attract a working population, Aungier granted immigrants religious freedom, practicing without foreign interference. | | | In 1687, the Presidency of India (held by the East India Company) moved to Mumbai, marking Mumbai’s ascendancy over Surat. | | | A park in Mumbai, much like the esplanade would have been. |
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http://www.macalester.edu/geography/courses/geog261/trebert/3_D_East_India_Co.htm
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| | India |
| | - Former parties: AIFB = All India Forward Bloc (left-wing Indian nationalist, est.1939, by | | | Head of State and Prime minister of Provisional Government of Free India¹ | | | state to India in the face of tribal invasion from Pakistan |
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| | Green Tea History in United States - Boston Tea Party - British East India Company |
| | And as we all know from our history books, this prompted the Boston Tea Party. | | | On December 16, 1773, American patriots dressed as Mohawk Indians boarded the vessels of the East Indian Company docked in the Boston harbor and dumped all the tea that was on the three ships into the ocean. | | | Green tea history is an amazing story in the United States when you think that |
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http://davidhayden.com/blog/dave/archive/2005/08/30/2445.aspx
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| | Beginning Eastward From London: |
| | Each of these companies was under the control of a single director and his deputy, who were responsible for the general trade practices of the Company. | | | The administration of the company consisted of twenty-four committees, each with their own director, who were responsible for dealing with the foundations of the Company such as ship building, hiring men, and organizing its voyages. | | | Although there were two English attempts at eastern markets, the British Muscany Co. of the 1550's and the Levant Co. of 1581, both proved to be futile because of their lack of organization and the hostility of other powers. |
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| | TIMEasia.com: News -- Interview: Aamir Khan |
| | But he became a symbol of freedom because he gave his life for it, and stories were made about him. | | | Mangal Pandey, as we have him in the film, represents that section of Indian society which had begun to question. | | | Some of the Brits were very close to the Sepoys and were not at all happy with the way things were going. |
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| | Manas: History and Politics, East India Company |
| | In some places, the British practiced indirect rule, placing a Resident at the court of the native ruler who was allowed sovereignty in domestic matters. | | | Major victories were achieved against Tipu Sultan of Mysore and the Marathas, and finally the subjugation and conquest of the Sikhs in a series of Anglo- Sikh Wars led to British occupation over the entirety of India. | | | The famine of 1769-70, which the Company's policies did nothing to alleviate, may have taken the lives of as many as a third of the population. |
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http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/History/British/EAco.html
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| | East India Company |
| | The United Company was organized into a court of 24 directors who worked through committees. | | | Starting as a monopolistic trading body, the company became involved in politics and acted as an agent of British imperialism in India from the early 18th century to the mid-19th century. | | | Chinese opposition to this trade precipitated the first Opium War (1839-42), which resulted in a Chinese defeat and the expansion of British trading privileges; a second conflict, often called the "Arrow" War (1856-60), brought increased trading rights for Europeans. |
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| | East India Company (United Kingdom) |
| | This is somewhat misleading, as it implies that the East India Company had the right to sail under their own flag, and that this right was being restricted. | | | This order was constantly repeated in instructions to departing captains until September 1688, which was when James II fled to France, the future William III landed in England, and Pepys lost his position as Secretary of the Admiralty. | | | Both feature the arms of the East India Company, which I'll attempt to describe. |
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| | British East India Company |
| | By 1652 there were some 23 English factories in India. | | | The India Act 1858 transferred all the company's powers to the British government. | | | The end of the monopoly of China trade came in 1834, and after the Indian Mutiny 1857–58 the crown took complete control of the government of British India. |
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| | British India |
| | In the eighteenth century, the French decided to challenge the pre-eminence of the British East India Company, and incited some of the states of the Mogul Empire to attack the British. | | | In 1947, after a prolonged campaign of civil disobedience led by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (the Mahatma, or great soul), England gave independence to the colony, which was divided into India, an officially secular state with a largely Hindu population, and Pakistan, an officially Muslim state. | | | During the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth, India was the place where many of the second sons of titled families (who would not inherit the family estate, and consequently had to choose between the Church and the Army) went as Army officers to make their fortunes. |
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| | East India Docks |
| | This measure created a new Board of Trade and helped to transfer the political, financial and military power of the East India Company to the British government. | | | The British government became concerned with the power of the East India Company and in 1783 Charles Fox attempted to persuade Parliament to pass a bill that would replace the company's directors with a board of commissioners. | | | The East India Company now found it difficult to make a profit from its activities and in 1834 ceased trading and instead acted as a managing agency for the government. |
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| | Christian Heritage |
| | The prime minister prepares to face further questions about his political future at a meeting of backbenchers. | | | An inquiry begins after Tottenham Hotspur players fall ill with food poisoning on the eve of a crucial match. | | | Iraqi authorities in Basra agree to resume co-operation with the British Army after several weeks of boycott. |
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| | AllRefer.com - Indonesia - The Java War and Cultivation System Indonesian Information Resource |
| | Moreover, the elite in Central Java were humiliated by a British occupation and partition of Yogyakarta in 1812. | | | In practice, however, as some historians have pointed out, there was not a "system." Wide local and regional variations in applying van den Bosch's theory occurred and, instead, colonial exploitation took place. | | | Many of the elite found themselves short of funds and indebted as Dutch demands for tax revenues expanded after 1816. |
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| | The British East India Company |
| | There are many pluses and minuses to what could be called a “power-craze”. | | | In the end though the minuses override the pluses and all the work that is put into trying to control is lost. | | | It could be said that Britain and the company were partners in the control and governing of India, bu |
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| | East India Docks |
| | The British East India Company had been established under a Royal Charter of Queen Elizabeth I for 15 years for spice trading on 31st December 1600 AD with the capital of £ 70,000. | | | But as the average size of East Indiamen increased in the second half of the eighteenth century to 1,000 tons or more the ships had to anchor in deeper water down river at Blackwall. | | | Tea had been the favorite English beverage since 1750. |
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| | The British East India Company free essays |
| | Why were the British Able to Win Control of India | | | Charles leased this land to the BEIC for 10 livres a year. | | | This method was borrowed from the Dutch and Venetian's, who found it beneficial to have several small investors rather that one large source risking bankruptcy. |
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