The term is also used for the Indian dishes adapted during the British Raj in India, some of which later became fashionable in Britain.
The roots of this violence lie in India's history, stemming from lingering resentment toward the Islamic domination of India during the Middle Ages, policies established by the country's British colonizers, the violent partition of India into a Muslim Pakistan, and a secular India with a large but minority Muslim population.
Appanur, as a part of the Ramnad district was under the Sethupathis during the beginning of the 17th century, then under the British Raj, before it came under the Union of India in 1947 when India received its independence.
The indigenous Bodo community of Assam alleged that the Muslim population is increasing in Assam due to the large influx of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, while the local Muslim community brushed it aside saying that they migrated to Assam during the British Raj.
With the Poona Division under siege, the high commands in London and Simla began scrambling to put together a relief force.
There may also have been some convergence between the London Spanish and Portuguese and Iraqi melodies during British rule in India and the British Mandate of Mesopotamia.
During the Tirah Campaign (1897–98) of the British Raj, the bands of rebellious Chamkannis were also attacked.
Prior to his military career Beckett’s father William had been a senior Civil Engineer, working on behalf of the Indian government.
Two local Westcombe land owners, Colonel Henry Upton Lamyatt and Mr Everard Creech, had bid a large proportion of their families’ wealth to acquire a small but valuable parcel of land in Britain’s growing Indian Empire.
Sardar Khudadad Khan Gabol owned vast land in Karachi (the economic capital of Pakistan) during the British Raj.
The original consecration of the Karachi Christian Cemetery was in 1845 during colonial rule but there is a tombstone set in the wall near the main gate of the cemetery bearing the date 1843.
Eventually after prolonged ligation the Privy Council during British Raj ruled in the favour of the Sikh litigants and the present structure was added in 1930, gold guild of the domes was added in the coming years.
Perry fled into the wilderness and lived out a fugitive's life of jungle survival, discovering and adapting to the headhunting lifestyle of the Naga people of northeastern India and northern Burma.
The British took control of the region from the Sikhs in 1849 and built Asia's largest cantonment in the region in Rawalpindi.
Indian Meritorious Service Medal (for Indian Army), established in 1888 by the British Raj for award to native Indian non-commissioned officers serving in the Indian Army.
Kamta-Rajaula was a princely state in India during the British Raj.
The Khudiadadzai people fought bravely against the British.
The Museum contains some fine specimens of Mughal and Sikh door-ways and wood-work and has a large collection of paintings dating back to the Mughal, Sikh and British periods.
Postwar, Lionel-Wilbraham saw service in Turkey during the Chanak Crisis of 1922, and then went to India to serve as ADC to the Governor of Madras (1924–27).
The British Raj intervened and exploited the situation to their interest.
The modern port started its operations in 1854 during the British Raj, when a mole was constructed to connect city to the harbor.
Supervising land-revenue collection and farming during the British Raj, he was famous in the region for his religiosity, righteousness, and generosity.
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
The border between British India and the semi-independent State of Kashmir with Eastern Turkestan became a matter of some speculation.
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The previous border claimed by the British Indian Empire is shown in the two-toned purple and pink band with Shahidulla and the Kilik, Kilian and Sanju Passes clearly north of the border.
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.
During the British Raj rule of India, some parts of the administration temporarily moved each summer to Simla, where the weather is cooler.
The writer Rudyard Kipling mentioned the tune in one of his accounts of army life in India under the British Raj: "The man who has never heard the 'Keel Row' rising high and shrill above the sound of the regiment...has something yet to hear and understand".
During the British Raj, Tiruchirappalli was known as Trichinopoly, and was a district of the Madras Presidency; it was renamed upon India's declaration of independence in 1947.
Afghanistan ceded various frontier areas to Britain to prevent invasion of further areas of the country.
Born in India on 11 January 1926, Arasu came to Singapore in 1951, armed with a degree from the University of Madras and five years of experience in journalism.
During British Raj, Brahmins in general, found employment as white collar professions such as office clerks and teachers.
Built in 1896, it was originally known as the Indian Lounge because of to its British Raj-inspired interior design created by J.M. Boekbinder.
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Rai Bahadur Bakshi Badri Nath Chhibber (1897-1988), was a highly decorated police officer in British and independent India.
The organisation and structure of the modern Bangladeshi intelligence community is derived largely from agencies that functioned during the British colonial and East Pakistan periods of the country, which included the Intelligence Bureau and the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
Among the Lohana jatis - a social grouping based on birth and kinship - are the Bhaibands, who by the time of the British Raj were held in a lesser regard than the Amil subgroup of Lohanas but who were the wealthiest as a result of their mobility and participation in trade.
Denzil Ibbetson, an ethnographer of the British Raj, noted that many were found in Sindh and Gujarat in the 19th century CE but that there were grounds to believe that they had migrated from Bhatner, Jaisalmer and the area then known as Rajputana (approximating to modern-day Rajasthan).
Denzil Ibbetson, an administrator of the British Raj, classified the Chauhans as a tribe rather than as a caste.
D. Dabke or Dattatraya Damodar Dabke was an actor in the first ever Indian full length silent film Raja Harishchandra, directed by Dadasaheb Phalke in 1913.
Darwan Singh Negi VC (November 1881 – 24 June 1950) was among the earliest Indian recipients of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Diwan Sir Abdul Hamid (also known as Khan Bahadur Abdul Hamid) born in Jalandhar was Chief Minister of Kapurthala Princely State in India under the British Raj.
Sir Edward Albert Gait KCSI CIE (1863–1950) was an administrator in the Indian Civil Service who rose to serve as Lieutenant-Governor of the British Raj Province known as Bihar and Orissa.
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.
After serving as an inspector for the Division of the Pacific and the Department of the Columbia, Lazelle represented the U. S. Army as an observer during the maneuvers of the British Army in India from November 1885 to March 1886.
Hijli Detention Camp, located in Hijli, beside Kharagpur, (a part of former Hijli Kingdom), in the district of Midnapore West, West Bengal, India, was significant in the struggle against the British Raj in the early 20th century.
The Lakshadweep islands were a part of the Madras Presidency under the British Raj and in accordance with the Indian Independence Act 1947, enacted by the British parliament, the islands were transferred to the new Union of India.
In 1875, the Maharaja of Johore purchased a second-hand Indian steam locomotive, an Indian State Railway Class B 0-4-4T number B27 (number 89 on the Rajputana State Railway) manufactured by Dübs (742/1874), suggesting, while unverified, its use in the JWR.
After 1782, Kuchesar mud-fort remained in unbroken possession of the family; it was granted to them in perpetual lease by the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam in 1790, a grant confirmed by the British in 1807.
The mud fort of Kuchesar was captured in 1763 but was recovered by the Jat rulers by 1782 and it remained in the family since then and was granted lease by the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam in 1790 and then by the British in 1807.
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.
Mayurbhanj Palace was the royal palace of Maharajas of Mayurbhanj, which was a princely state in British Raj.
The Military of Bangladesh inherits much of its organisation and structure from the Military of British India and from 1947, the Pakistani Armed Forces and its composition was significantly altered with the absorption of the Mukti Bahini guerrilla forces following independence.
Prior to the establishment of British regime over India and entering a peace treaty with Tibet in 1904 AD, Nepal was interpreted as the main route to Tibet for external trade with other countries.
The Post Office of India of the British Raj entered into postal conventions with a few native states of India.
During the British Raj, it played the tunes of "Rule Britannia", "God Save the King", "Home! Sweet Home!" and "A Handel Symphony", out of a total of sixteen tunes, which changed four times a day.
Even after India attaining Independence from the British Raj in 1947, Andhra Pradesh state of India is governed till today either by Indian National Congress, dominated by one caste (5% of Andhra Pradesh population) of Forward Caste, or by Telugu Desam Party, dominated by another Forward Caste (3% of Andhra Pradesh population).
With British Raj then existing in India, Sangeet Natakas were compared with the Operas and thus local Marathi Indians found synonymous recreation.
Shyamchi Aai is an autobiography of Sane Guruji belonging to a Brahmin family in Konkan region of rural Maharashtra during British Raj.
His essays in history touched the subject areas that affected British colonial history, especially officers stationed in India and Jamaica.
Ursula Jeans was born in Simla, British India, to English parents, and brought up and educated in London.
He graduated from the Thomason College of Civil Engineering, Roorkee in 1872, and joined the Indian Public Works Department the same year.