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He is credited as establishing the film industry in the Bhati Gate locality of Lahore, British India (now in Pakistan).
The Anglo-Indian Wars were the several wars fought in India between the various Indian states and empires and the British East India Company and British India.
The club is named after Bai Bureh, a great Sierra Leonean warrior and military strategist who led the Temne Uprising against the British in 1898.
Before its partition, internal migration was commonplace within British India, including movement between the region which is now Bangladesh and the regions of Assam and West Bengal.
For 45 years it was a part of British India and returned to Nepal in 1860 in recognition for supporting the suppression of the Indian Independence movement in 1857.
In the 19th century and prior to World War I, the Bombay Sappers served in Arabia, Persia, Abyssinia, China, Somaliland; in India fought in the Mysore, Maratha and Anglo-Sikh Wars; fought in the aftermath of the Mutiny in Mhow, Jhansi, Saugor and Kathiawar and many times over in the Punjab, North West Frontier Province and Afghanistan.
The Bower Manuscript is named after Hamilton Bower, the British Army intelligence officer who obtained it from a local inhabitant in Kucha early in 1890, while on a confidential mission for the government of British India.
The Marathas ceded parts of Bundelkhand, which were later called later British Bundelkhand, to the British in the 1802 Treaty of Bassein.
It is home to a Pakistan Army garrison and a Pakistan Air Force base, along with associated unit HQs, depots and workshops, most of them present since the British era.
The Delhi Conspiracy case, also known as the Delhi-Lahore Conspiracy, refers to a conspiracy in 1912 to assassinate the then Viceroy of India, Lord Hardinge, on the occasion of transferring the capital of British India from Calcutta to New Delhi.
A world cruise followed in which he visited British India where he dined with the Viceroy, Lord Lytton at Simla, travelling on to Sydney, Tasmania, Auckland, Honolulu and San Francisco, and in 1882 was in Egypt to cover the Anglo-Egyptian War; he was present at Battle of Tel-el-Kebir.
The formation of the Indian National Congress in 1885 led to increased agitation for Indian independence from British rule.
Fullerton was born at Fatehgarh, India; graduated in 1879 from the University of Pennsylvania and in 1884 from Yale Divinity School; and returned to Pennsylvania to be an instructor, adjunct professor, and dean of the department of philosophy, dean of the college, and vice provost of the university.
The Corps of Guides was raised at Peshawar on 14 December 1846 by Lieutenant Harry Burnett Lumsden on the orders of Sir Henry Lawrence, the British Resident at Lahore, capital of the enfeebled Sikh Empire.
Gurusharan was born to Sardar Chattar Singh Kohli, an employee of Burmah-Shell, and Sardarni Bhagwanti Kaur on the 13th of September 1937 in British India.
The following month Sir William Herschel, a British civil servant based in India, wrote to Nature saying that he had been using fingerprints (as a form of bar code) to identify criminals since 1860.
Born in British India on 27 May 1880, Hugh Elles was the younger son of Lt Gen Sir Edmond Elles.
The Third Law commission of British India formed in 1861 under the stewardship of chairman Sir John Romilly, with initial members as Sir Edward Ryan, R. Lowe, J.M. Macleod, Sir W. Erle (succeeded by Sir. W.M. James) and Justice Wills (succeeded by J. Henderson), had presented the report on contract law for India as Draft Contract Law (1866).
The Lahore Conspiracy Case trial also known as the First Lahore Conspiracy Case, were the trials held in Lahore (then part of the undivided Punjab of British India) in the aftermath of the failed Ghadar conspiracy in 1915.
There is a mosque which houses the tomb of Seyyid Baghali, a Punjabi foreman at the time of the building of the railway who was renowned for his strength.
The state became a princely state of British India in the early 19th century, and was administered as part of Bundelkhand Agency in the Central India Agency.
As part of efforts to explore overland trade routes between British India and China province, junior British diplomat Augustus Raymond Margary was sent from Shanghai through southwest China to Bhamo in Upper Burma, where he was supposed to met Colonel Horace Browne.
Sir Alexander Robert Loftus Tottenham (1873–1946), son of John Francis Tottenham, was administrator of Pudukkottai in British India.
Mathrubhumi was founded by K. P. Kesava Menon, an active volunteer in the Indian freedom struggle against the British.
The mid-1890s found him back in South Africa, covering the failed Jameson Raid, the Matabele uprising and the subsequent Boer War, although he also covered the campaign in the Tirah on the North-West Frontier of British India in 1897.
Maraj Senior was a Maratha princely states of British India, under the southern division of the Bombay Presidency, forming part of the southern Mahratta Jagirs, and later the Deccan States Agency.
The squadron was disbanded on 10 November 1945 at Fatehjang, British India.
The Indian XV Corps was advancing in the coastal Arakan Province, while the British IV Corps had pushed two Indian infantry divisions almost to the Chindwin River at Tamu and Tiddim.
After receiving their complaints, Lord Dalhousie, the governor-general of British India, sent Commodore George Lambert to the king requesting a compensation of £920 and the dismissal of Maung Ok.
Panna district was created in 1950, shortly after Indian independence, from the territory of several former princely states of British India, including the states of Panna, Jaso, most of Ajaigarh, and a portion of Paldeo.
In 1940 and 1941, Christison was Commandant of the Staff College, Quetta in the former British India (now Pakistan).
As per the postal convention (or agreement), existing adhesive stamps and postal stationery of British India were overprinted with the name of the state for use within each convention State, for mail from one convention state to another, and to destinations in British India.
The Praja Party, initially called the Council Praja Party or the Bengal Praja Party (Bengal Tenant Party) and later renamed the Nikhil Banga Praja Samiti (All Bengal Tenant Association) then the Krishak Praja Party (Peasant Tenant Party), was a political party of Bengal in the latter days of British India.
It had its origins when the saint Bābā Jaimal Singh settled in 1891 near the town of Beās at an isolated rural site, which later came to be called Dera Baba Jaimal Singh, on the west bank of the Beās River in the Punjab region of British India.
Rahman Anwar Syed was born into a Muslim family of the village of Alawalpur, Punjab, British India, the eldest of seven children.
Germany established their Intelligence Bureau for the East on the eve of World War I, dedicated to promoting and sustaining subversive and nationalist agitations in British India and the Persian and Egyptian satellite states.
Ravivarma Narasimha Domba Heggade (died 1800) was the Raja (sovereign) of Vitla principality who led a resistance against British colonisers in the erstwhile South Canara district of British India.
He was present at the battles of Mukdi, Firuzshah, and Sobraon in 1845-46, and at the close of the Sikh campaign was placed in charge of a new province in the Punjab.
Annamalai Chettiar was born on September 30, 1881 at Kanadukathan in the Sivaganga estate of the then Madura district in the Madras Presidency of British India.
He was appointed by President James Buchanan as consul general of the United States to British India, with residence in Calcutta, from January 3, 1861, and served until July 4, 1862, when he resigned.
Sanad deed, in British India, a deed granted to the native princely state confirming them in their states, in return for their allegiance
Small communist groups were formed in Bengal (led by Muzaffar Ahmed), Bombay (led by S.A. Dange), Madras (led by Singaravelu Chettiar), United Provinces (led by Shaukat Usmani) and Punjab (led by Ghulam Hussain).
The original house was simply a humble timber-and-attap garden house, fashioned in a simple Anglo-Indian Garden House style formerly common in British India.
In British India, the kings retained an estate in British India, known as Tippera district or Chakla Roshnabad (now the Comilla district of Bangladesh), in addition to the independent area known as Hill Tippera, the present-day state of Tripuri.
Ved Parkash Mehta (born March 21, 1934) is a writer who was born in Lahore, British India (now a Pakistani city) to a Hindu family.
The Vizagapatam Hill Tracts Agency was an agency in the Madras Presidency of British India.
In August 1901, then Major-General Meiklejohn was posted at Lucknow, in British India, and appointed in command of the district at Derajat.
A. K. Golam Jilani was born in 24 October 1904 in the Algichor village of the Nawabganj Upazila of the Dhaka district of British India (Present day India, Pakistan and Bangladesh).
He was subsequently posted at the Department of Archaeology of British India at Taj Mahal, Agra.
Aundh Experiment, an early test of village-level self-government in British India
Backergunje, a former district of British India now located mostly in Bangladesh
Sir Cecil Beadon (1816–1880), administrator in British India, Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal
The Treaty of Sinchula stood until 1910, when Bhutan and British India signed the Treaty of Punakha, effective until 1947.
1855 : Keshub Chunder Sen founds "The British India Society" later associated with Christian missionaries James Long and Charles Dall.
Chota Nagpur States, a collection of princely states of British India (historic)
He served in British India, mainly in Karachi but with visits to Basra and Quetta from 23 September 1917 to 14 January 1920, a period when he became a friend of Hugh Whistler who shared an interest in ornithology.
No British India coins were issued during the brief reign of Edward VIII.
Eastern States Agency, a former administrative division of British India
Colonel Eric Garnett Atkinson MVO, (April 9, 1887 – 1955) was a soldier and a British India 9-goal polo player.
He was born in 1827 in British India, and resided in Newan Kot, a suburb of Lahore (modern Pakistan).
Ganga Sahai Sharma was an extremely accomplished late 19th century Sanskrit Scholar in the Bundi state of Rajasthan (at time known as Rajputana) in Colonial British India.
George Gough Arbuthnot (1848–1929), businessman and civil leader in British India
Sir George Barlow, 1st Baronet (1762–1847), acting Governor-General of British India 1805-07
Manufactured at the Calcutta Mint, this medal was presented by the British India Government originally as a star with a clip on the back to be worn on the breast.
Developed by Azizul Haque and Sir Edward Henry in the late 19th century for criminal investigations in British India, it was the basis of modern day AFIS (Automated Fingerprint Identification System) classification methods up until the 1990s.
Henry Mortimer Durand (1850–1924), British diplomat and civil servant of colonial British India
A health officer was appointed in 1898, the city was divided into four wards for better coordination and the Victoria Hospital was inaugurated in 1900 by Lord Curzon, the then Viceroy and Governor-General of British India.
Following the Mughal tradition and more importantly due to its strategic location Ajmer became a province of British India, while the autonomous Rajput states, the Muslim state (Tonk), and the Jat states (Bharatpur and Dholpur) were organized into the Rajputana Agency.
It was the former capital of Jath State, one of the non-salute Maratha princely states of British India, under the Bombay Presidency, and later the Deccan States Agency.
John Stuart Donald, former Chief Commissioner of the North West Frontier Province of British India
Soon after his accession, Kerala Varma embarked on a tour of British India in order to improve his knowledge of the country and visited Coimbatore, Bangalore, Poona, Indore and Benares.
She has written two books on Indian history: Business, Race and Politics in British India and Vishnu's Crowded Temple, India since the Great Rebellion.
In 1946 the Squadron was disbanded in Java and reformed at PAF Base Masroor, Mauripur Karachi, at that time in British India.
He is known to have attempted insurrections and raised at the Iran-Baluchistan border while Mahendra Pratap's Indo-German expedition attempted to rally the Afghan Emir Habibullah Khan against British India.
Paul Deussen’s name is thus linked with George Boucher, Sir William Jones and Sir John Woodroffe in British India, Anquetil-Duperron and Eugène Burnouf in France, Heinrich Roth, Franz Bopp, Friedrich von Schlegel and Max Müller in Germany, in the European revelation of the wealth of Hinduism as revealed by Sanskrit documents.
While observing the solar eclipse of August 18, 1868, at Guntur, in Madras State now Andhra Pradesh, British India, he noticed bright lines in the spectrum of the chromosphere, showing that the chromosphere is gaseous.
Then known as The Punjab Limited, the train initially ran from Ballard Pier to Peshawar, taking British officers, civil servants, and their families directly from their ships to Delhi and the North-West frontier of British India.
Cockerell had already experimented cautiously with Indian elements at Daylesford, Gloucestershire, built for Warren Hastings, first governor-general of British India, nearby.
Card accredits two books in particular as being profoundly influential in the writing of this novel: Thailand: A Short History by David K. Wyatt and Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India by Lawrence James.
The king of Kathmandu at the time, Jaya Prakash Malla, then asked for military aid from the British in British India.
He argued that Tsarist Russia would attack and absorb Khokand, Bokhara and Khiva (which they did) and would invade Persia (present-day Iran) and Afghanistan as springboards to British India (Meyer 154).
He argued that Tsarist Russia would attack and absorb Khokand, Bokhara and Khiva (which they did) and warned they would invade Persia (present-day Iran) and Afghanistan as springboards to British India.
Most Exalted Order of the Star of India (1861 – 1947), an order of chivalry associated with British India
The Chinese reached here through this historic Bailey trail (named after the legendary Lt. Colonel Frederick Marshman Bailey who made a tough exploration to the Tsangpo Gorges with Captain Henry Morshead of the Survey of India in 1911-12 and descended down to Thembang while returning back to British India).
Thomas Patrick Hughes, born 26 March 1838 in Henley Shrophsire, England, was a missionary with the Church Missionary Society (CMS) in Peshawar in British India (now Pakistan) for 20 years.
In Wardian cases, Robert Fortune shipped to British India 20,000 tea plants smuggled out of Shanghai, China, to begin the tea plantations of Assam.
Sir William Langhorne, 1st Baronet (c1634–1715), early colonial administrator in British India under the East India Company
He was the princely ruler of Belghat, Northwest Province, British India (modern day Uttar Pradesh, India).