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Há 2 dias · Though some of Britain’s most powerful political leaders became secretaries of state for India in the latter half of the 19th century, actual control over the government of India remained in the hands of British viceroys—who divided their time between Calcutta and Simla —and their “steel frame” of approximately 1,500 Indian ...
Há 5 dias · But P Thankappan Nair, who passed away on Tuesday aged 91, was fascinated by Calcutta’s lanes, bylanes, thoroughfares and colonial architecture. He would spend hours, mostly barefoot, soaking in the sights and talking to people. Curiosity led Nairda, as he began to be fondly called in his adopted city, to scan archives, corporation records ...
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Há 5 dias · Maxwell Stone, a jewellery expert at Steven Stone, said: "Queen Camilla is wearing the Delhi Carved Emerald Brooch, originally gifted to Queen Mary to commemorate her royal visit to India in...
Há 3 dias · In 1911, King-Emperor George V announced the annulment of the first partition of Bengal and the transfer of India's capital from Calcutta to New Delhi. At the Delhi Durbar on 12 December 1911, Emperor George V announced the transfer of the seat of the government of India from Calcutta to Delhi, the reunification of the five ...
Há 3 dias · These were the answers, with Mughal consent, to increasing Indian insecurity. The Madras factory was already fortified, and Fort William in Calcutta followed in 1696. The company thus had, with independent Bombay, three centers of Indian power.
Há 3 dias · India - Nationalism, British, Resistance: The Indian National Congress (Congress Party) held its first meeting in December 1885 in Bombay city while British Indian troops were still fighting in Upper Burma. Thus, just as the British Indian empire approached its outermost limits of expansion, the institutional seed of the largest of its national successors was sown. Provincial roots of Indian ...
