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| | British India - 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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| | Manas: History and Politics, British India |
| | Delhi was recaptured by British troops in late 1857, the Emperor Bahadur Shah, last of the Mughals, was put on trial for sedition and predictably convicted, and by mid-1858 the Rebellion had been entirely crushed. | | | Certain Indian social or religious practices that the British found to be abhorrent were outlawed, such as sati in 1829, and an ethic of 'improvement' was said to dictate British social policies. | | | n 1757, on account of the British victory at Plassey, where a military force led by Robert Clive defeated the forces of the Nawab of Bengal, Siraj-ud-daulah, the East India Company found itself transformed from an association of traders to rulers exercising political sovereignty over a largely unknown land and people. |
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http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/History/British/BrIndia.html
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: India |
| | In course of time a large body of native secular clergy came into existence, some of whom strongly developed the apostolic spirit; but in general their work was to take charge of the parishes and mission-stations which had already been founded by the missionary orders. | | | After his death and the breaking up of his empire, the people of India, under the leadership of a prince of Patna (305 B.C.) forced the Greek invader to relinquish all share in the country. | | | On the whole, Christian missionaries have to be thankful for the liberal principles on which native administrations are conducted under the guiding hand of the British Government. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07722a.htm
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| | Alexander Cockburn: How the British Destroyed India |
| | The Gateway to India, outside my window, slowly became a silhouette in the twilight, as homeless families settled down in its shadow for the night. | | | In his years on the Daily Worker, my father knew Palme Dutt well when the latter was the prime theoretician and intellectual commissar of the British Communist Party. | | | This is not to say that there was no revolt in the cities. |
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http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn08062005.html
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| | The British Raj |
| | Most acceded peacefully, hoping some of their privileges, would be upheld. | | | Gandhi turned the small, upper-middle-class Indian National Congress into a mass movement by adopting a style that would appeal to ordinary Hindus and by creating networks of alliances with other political movements. | | | Many ruled dictatorially, but a few were more democratic. |
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http://freespace.virgin.net/andrew.randall1/india.htm
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| | Modern History Sourcebook: British Government Statement: Policy In India, 1946 |
| | This difficulty would be accentuated in the central legislature, where it would be necessary to exclude certain members from speaking and voting when subjects with which their provinces were not concerned were under discussion. | | | We therefore examined in the first instance the question of a separate and fully independent sovereign state of Pakistan as claimed by the Muslim League. | | | To meet this the Congress have put forward a scheme under which provinces would have full autonomy subject only to a minimum of central subjects, such as foreign affairs, defence and communications. |
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http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1946-india-ukpolicy.html
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| | Internet Indian History Sourcebook |
| | Arthur Bonner: India's Masses: the Public That Can't Be Reached, The Atlantic Monthly, October 1959, [At The Atlantic] | | | Jabez Sunderland: The New Nationalist Movement in India, The Atlantic Monthly, October 1908, [At The Atlantic] | | | Greek Reports of India and Aryavarta [At this Site] |
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http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/indiasbook.html
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| | Modern History Sourcebook: Dadabhai Naoroji: The Benefits of British Rule, 1871 |
| | Political aspirations and the legitimate claim to have a reasonable voice in the legislation and the imposition and disbursement of taxes, met to a very slight degree, thus treating the natives of India not as British subjects, in whom representation is a birthright. | | | Freedom of speech and liberty of the press. | | | The famines that were in their power to prevent, if they had done their duty, as a good and intelligent government. |
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http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1871britishrule.html
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| | CNN.com - India frees British arms dealer - Feb. 4, 2004 |
| | A convicted British arms dealer walked out of an East Indian prison Wednesday after receiving a pardon from India's president, according to jail officials. | | | He has been imprisoned since he was arrested in 1995. | | | British officials, including Home Minister David Blunkett, had appealed to the Indian government for leniency. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/02/04/india.uk.prisoner/index.html
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| | India Office Records |
| | The India Office Records are the documentary archives of the administration in London of the pre-1947 government of India. | | | Some of our catalogues can be consulted as part of the 'London Archives on the Wider World' theme on A2A - Access to Archives: the English strand of the UK archives network. | | | The India Office Records are administered by The British Library as part of the Public Records of the United Kingdom, and are open for public consultation. |
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http://www.bl.uk/collections/orientaloffice.html
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| | British India Command - encyclopedia article about British India Command. |
| | The post survived Indian independence and since 1948 has been manned by Indians who report to the Government of the Republic of India. | | | World War II During World War II after the dissolution of ABDACOM and before the creation of SEAC the C-in-C India was also responsible for Ceylon and the Burma Campaign. | | | During this period Chinese and American units also came under the operational control of the India Command. |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/British+India+Command
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| | The Historian: KEEPERS OF THE JUNGLE: ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT... @ HighBeam Research |
| | Previous attempts at conservation in India had failed for lack of political support. | | | India held a particular allure for civil and government specialists throughout the nineteenth century. | | | In a letter to a parliamentary committee in 1849, Dalhousie argued that the Sikh government there had violated the 1846 treaties of Lahore and Bhyrowal by defaulting on a debt owed the British government. |
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http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:62828734&refid=holomed_1
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| | Kamat's Potpourri: First Indian War of Independence |
| | History Potpourri -- Social and political history of India; includes history of freedom struggle, history of drinking, history of education, dynasties, and religious movements | | | Nominally the besieging force, they were themselves besieged by the mutineers, who made a daring attempt to intercept their train. | | | In August 1858, by the Act for the Better Government of India, its political authority was entrusted to a secretary of state. |
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http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/itihas/1858.htm
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| | FIBIS - Main Home Page |
| | The Society does NOT concentrate on the Raj period nor solely on the British in India because to do so would exclude a number of other nationalities who played an important part and became part of the Indian culture. | | | The Families In British India Society (FIBIS) is an organisation devoted to members with an interest in researching their ancestors and the background against which they led their lives in ' British India '. | | | The Society was formed in November 1998 to provide a resource for people researching families and their social history in India from 1600 up to, and even after, Indian Independence in 1947. |
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http://www.fibis.org
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| | WWW-VL: History Index: India History |
| | The Myth of the Aryan Invasion of India | | | The British Raj - The British Conquest of India | | | Rise of Religions and Emergence of the State [c. |
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| | British India |
| | In 1833, many of the early shipping lists pre-1800 were thrown out and on takeover in 1858, 320 tons of records presumed to be duplicated were disposed of; despite attempts to recover some non-duplicated papers from scrap merchants, much was lost. | | | There should be no British ‘other ranks' after 1861, but there were NCOs and others who chose to stay on to serve out their time with native units instead of transferring to the regular Army and some were borrowed later. | | | All British persons abroad were encouraged to notify births to the chaplains or to the later consuls, to retain their rights to British nationality. |
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http://www.aigs.org.au/britind.htm
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| | Historical Maps of India |
| | This is a large file but the map is very good... | | | You can exchange ideas, suggestions, queries, questions and family details with a group of people who are interested in the same subject. | | | Additional information about the mailing list can be found on Cathy Day's "Family History in India" web site. |
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http://homepages.rootsweb.com/%7Epoyntz/India/maps.html
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| | British Raj: British Conquest of India |
| | Source of Photo: The British Raj, Dennis Judd | | | The British conquest of India was not a well plotted design from the government. | | | The British Raj - The British Conquest of India |
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| | Rudyard Kipling -- The Bard of British Imperialism |
| | We've fought with many men acrost the seas, | | | Rudyard Kipling was, in his grand style, the bard of British Imperialism, and in his dialect poems, the voice of the common soldier. | | | Kipling is often ignored today, because his exultation in the supposed moral and cultural superiority of European (and specifically British) civilization makes liberal-minded twentieth-century readers wince. |
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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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| | British India |
| | The many changes that Britain had brought about in the administration and the ways of life created considerable discontent; and there were many risings in various parts of the country from 1816 to 1857. | | | This culminated in the Revolt of 1857, which shook the very foundation of the Company's rule in India. | | | India's connection with the west has predominantly been related to trade. |
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http://www.india4u.com/history/british.asp
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| | Manas: History and Politics of India |
| | The Indian National Congress, which had led the country to freedom, remained the largest and most influential party under the stewardship of Jawaharlal Nehru, who served as India's Prime Minister from 1947 to 1964. | | | By the late 1960s, Indira Gandhi had engineered a split in the Congress, as the only means to ensure her political survival, and the Congress had been reduced to a sh adow of its former self. | | | In the fifth century, large parts of India were united under Ashoka; he also converted to Buddhism, and it is in his reign that Buddhism spread to o ther parts of Asia. |
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http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/History/mainhist.html
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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. | | | Gradually the British eclipsed the Portugese and over the years they saw a massive expansion of their trading operations in India. |
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http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/History/British/EAco.html
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| | b. British India, to Independence and Partition. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History |
| | The All-India Congress failed to agree on a common list of ministers for the new government, and the deadlock between Muslim leaders and Congress leaders continued. | | | The new British Labour government proposed to discuss with Indian representatives the offer for Indian autonomy made in 1942. | | | Although supporters of partition had asserted that a shared Islamic identity would unite Pakistan, from its earliest days the state has been unable to resolve the tension between the attempt to use Islam to integrate very different regional cultures and the need to accede countering identities constructed around regional and ethnic identities. |
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| | BBC - History - The British Presence in India in the 18th Century |
| | By then the British had established a military dominance that would enable them in the next fifty years to subdue all the remaining Indian states of any consequence, either conquering them or forcing their rulers to become subordinate allies. | | | British involvement in India during the 18th century can be divided into two phases, one ending and the other beginning at mid-century. | | | By the end of the century British rule had been consolidated over the first conquests and it was being extended up the Ganges valley to Delhi and over most of the peninsula of southern India. |
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| | India -- Introduction |
| | This event marked the beginning of the end of the European political control of large parts of Asia, Africa, and other parts of the world which had developed as European empires extended their power outward over the course of several centuries. | | | The curators are particularly grateful to the men and women who agreed to share their recollections of India, whose names and recorded and transcribed words can be found throughout this document. | | | A few excerpts from these interviews were available as sound recordings at the original exhibition. |
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http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/india/intro.htm
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| | British India |
| | 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. | | | 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. | | | After soldiers at Meerut mutinied and killed their officers in May 1857, British troops aided by Sikhs and Gurkas took a year to put down the rebellion. |
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http://www.victorianweb.org/history/empire/India.html
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| | British India Family History |
| | This website is a member of The British India Family History Research Webring. | | | I would like to thank all the people who have helped and advised me with my research. | | | My family lost touch with theirs when they left India after Independence. |
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| | PASSAGES TO INDIA |
| | I grew up knowing almost nothing of my father's family except that he was born in Calcutta and that his father had changed his name in 1914 from Schaumburg to Harris. | | | During the time of the India mailing list, many subscribers have enquired about shipping and passenger information for ancestors who may have been born or died at sea or to find out when they arrived or left India. | | | Although none of my known family were involved in military activities, general research interests have widened and results of indexing information relating to members of the Madras Military Fund is now available. |
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| | Mughal India - The British Museum |
| | Under Emperor Akbar, a country previously wracked with internal conflict and religious friction was largely united. | | | At its peak, nearly all of India was under Mughal control. | | | Rich in goods, jewels and the refined arts, the Mughal Empire attracted the eye of trading Europeans - a relationship which, by the end of the eighteenth century, had begun to crumble. |
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| | British Council India |
| | This website offers a review of the status of academic links between the UK and India. | | | Whether you want to learn English, study in the UK, find out about the latest ideas from the UK or discover what we are doing in your area - this is the place to start. | | | Keep track of events in North, South, East and West India. |
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http://www.britishcouncil.org/india.htm
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| | British Council Library India :: Home |
| | Find out about what's going on at the library near you. | | | This unique collection of books on India covers the period from the 17th century to 1947. | | | The British Council is the United Kingdom's international organisation for educational opportunities and cultural relations. |
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| | Varun Parekh's Coin Collection (British India Coins) |
| | The British presence in India started in 1612, twelve years after the granting by Queen Elizabeth the First of a Royal Charter to the 218 Knights and merchants of the City of London who formed a company which received different names but remained in history as "the" East India Company. | | | This Is One Of Indias Only Holed Coins. | | | After the Great Mutiny in 1858, the British Government took direct control of its Indian possessions until they regained their independence in 1947, divided between India and Pakistan. |
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| | BIship - British India Steam Navigation |
| | This site is devoted to all subjects connected with the shipping company British India Steam Navigation, or BI as it is most often known. | | | Here you will find information about BI, its ships, routes, services, the people who manned the ships and ran the company. | | | BI was formed in 1856 and remained one of the largest companies in the British mercantile marine until it was finally, entirely absorbed into P&O in 1972. |
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| | Provinces of British India |
| | 20 Oct 1774 - 1854 Direct rule by the central government of British India. | | | 1885); IP = Ittihad Party (Union Party); JP = Swaraj Party (Justice Party); ML = Muslim League, All India (muslim, 1906-1947); MPP = Muslim Political Party; UP = Unionist Party | | | 1789 Andaman Islands a British possession, part of British India. |
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http://www.worldstatesmen.org/India_BrProvinces.htm
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| | British India Furniture - Compare Prices, Reviews and Buy at NexTag - Price - Review |
| | Once a common sight in British colonial India and Kenya, the folding campaign chair is a perfect marriage of form and function. | | | Furniture from British India and Ceylon: A Catalogue of the Collections in the Vic... | | | British India Furniture - Compare Prices, Reviews and Buy at NexTag - Price - Review |
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