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Há 2 dias · Company rule in India (sometimes Company Raj, from Hindi: rāj, lit. 'rule') was the rule of the British East India Company on the Indian subcontinent.This is variously taken to have commenced in 1757, after the Battle of Plassey, when the Nawab of Bengal Siraj ud-Daulah was defeated and replaced with Mir Jafar, who had the support of the East India Company; or in 1765, when the Company was ...
Há 2 dias · In 1807, the house was acquired by Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, who had gained fame and fortune as the Governor-General of India. However, it was his younger brother, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, who would leave the most indelible mark on Apsley House and transform it into a center of political and social influence.
After this time, ALL of the appointed Governor Generals are British statesmen, politicians and generals, even several members of the Board of Control among them, such as Richard Wellesley. - Effectively after 1784 and even more after 1797 (or already at 1786 with Cornwallis becoming Governor General), any hopes at independence would be futile.
Há 3 dias · The East India Company began using and transporting slaves in Asia and the Atlantic in the early 1620s, according to the Encyclopædia Britannica, or in 1621, according to Richard Allen. Eventually, the company ended the trade in 1834 after numerous legal threats from the British state and the Royal Navy in the form of the West Africa Squadron , which discovered various ships had contained ...
Há 1 dia · The All India States Peoples' Conference ( AISPC) was a conglomeration of political movements in the princely states of the British Raj, which were variously called Praja Mandals or Lok Parishads. [1] The first session of the organisation was held in Bombay in December 1927. [2] The Conference looked to the Indian National Congress for support ...
Há 5 dias · Foto: Sahara Force India/Divulgação / Estadão. O empresário indiano Vilay Mallya, de 68 anos, é o proprietário de uma réplica da Casa Branca construída no alto do Kingfisher Towers, em ...
Há 2 dias · Hearts-of-Teak: The Royal Navy’s Nineteenth-Century Timber Crises, Bombay Dockyard, And The Teak Forests of Malabar. Hearts of Oak are our ships, Jolly Tars are our men. (David Garrick 1770). The ongoing timber crisis in Britain peaked in the period 1803 to 1830 as a consequence of the renewal of the wars with France, in 1803, and America, in ...
