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It was in this institution where Lord Macaulay coined the syllabi of the education system for India under the British rule, which still remains as the backbone of Modern Indian Education System.
On 21 August 2011, Mohamad Sabu, Deputy President of PAS, made a controversial statement saying that Mat Indera, the leader of the communists during the Bukit Kepong Incident, was a national hero for fighting against British rule.
Based on the terms of the treaty, the Nawab of Arcot (sometimes called the Nawab of the Carnatic) ceded all his lands to British rule, including the territory of the polygars.
The formation of the Indian National Congress in 1885 led to increased agitation for Indian independence from British rule.
The last British troops to leave India following the country's independence, the First Battalion of the Somerset Light Infantry, passed through the gateway on their way out in a ceremony on 28 February 1948, signalling the end of British rule.
The Noakhali riots also known as the Noakhali genocide or the Noakhali Carnage, was a series of massacres, rapes, abductions and forced conversions of Hindus and looting and arson of Hindu properties, perpetrated by the Muslim community in the districts of Noakhali in the Chittagong Division of Bengal in October–November 1946, a year before India's independence from British rule.
Before she died she was working on her second novel, which merged love stories with the history of the Yishuv in Palestine during British rule during the 1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine and World War II.
In 1920-1921, the students and teachers of the college registered their protest against the British rule by boycotting the visit of the Prince of Wales to the college.
He was also remembered as the first Sarawakian Bumiputera to receive a MA Degree from a British university (University of Edinburgh), a huge achievement for the people of Sarawak, as it was under British rule at the time.
It portrays the career of Benedict Arnold in the American Revolutionary War and his dramatic switch in 1780 from fighting for American Independence to being a Loyalist trying to preserve British rule in America.
Two centuries later, in 1877, during the British rule, due to scarcity (famine conditions) Bijapur city was found in a desolate and deserted state that was compared to similarly placed ruined cities of Baalbek in Bekaa Valley of Lebanon or Pompeiopolis in Rome.
Houghton was born in Madras to an Anglo-Indian family who emigrated to England in 1947 when India gained independence from British rule.
The Bukusu who occupy much of the county are resilient and flamboyant people who stood up against British rule in the late 19th century.
In January 1916, Carrigan and fellow IRB members from Glasgow travelled to Dublin along with members of Na Fianna and Cumann na mBan and formed the Scottish Division of the Irish Volunteers and were based at the home of Count Plunkett in Kimmage, County Dublin where they prepared for an insurrection against British Rule in Ireland.
Attara Kacheri, built in 1864 A.D during British rule, is a stone structure in an intense red hue, a two storied building with Corinthian columns in Gothic Style of architecture and is located at the entrance to the Park.
On the national issue, the Sinn Féin Manifesto for the 1918 election had stressed the long history of Irish resistance to British rule, "..based on our unbroken tradition of nationhood, on a unity in a national name which has never been challenged, on our possession of a distinctive national culture and social order, on the moral courage and dignity of our people in the face of alien aggression.."
Dublin Castle was the centre of the government of Ireland under English and later British rule.
He was approximately twelve years old when his parents left Baghdad for Syria, which was under French rule, then for Egypt and for Palestine (which was not yet Israel) and still at that time under British rule.
Furthermore, he has worked in helping develop key legislature, providing an insight into the customs and traditions of legal practice and how they were harmonized with local laws in the former West Cameroon under British rule.
Prior to British rule, Flatlands was known as Nieuw Amersfoort (named after the Dutch city of Amersfoort) and was established as a farming community when, in 1636, Andreas Hudde and Wolphert Gerretse bought 15,000 acres of land centered around what is now the intersection of Kings Highway and Flatbush Avenue.
As Carol Polsgrove has shown in Ending British Rule in Africa: Writers in a Common Cause, Padmore and his allies in the 1930s and 1940s—among them C. L. R. James, Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, the Gold Coast's Kwame Nkrumah and South Africa's Peter Abrahams—saw publishing as a strategy for political change.
The ancient city of Harappa was heavily damaged under the British rule, when bricks from the ruins were used as track ballast in the making of the Lahore-Multan Railroad.
Mailara Mahadevappa: The freedom fighter who resisted British rule, is from Motebennur in Haveri District.
A significant moment in the struggle against British rule occurred at The Hijli Detention Camp on Sept. 16, 1931 when two unarmed detainees, Santosh Kumar Mitra and Tarakeswar Sengupta, were shot dead by the British Police and Subhas Chandra Bose came to Hijli to collect their bodies.
In the 1920s, when Britain held a mandate from the League of Nations (predecessor of the United Nations), British occupational forces, under the command of Arthur Harris, used mustard gas and delayed action bombing to suppress Iraqi resistance to British rule, leading to numerous civilian casualties.
On the night of 1 May 1921, the Jewish Communist Party (precursor of the Palestine Communist Party) distributed Arabic and Yiddish fliers calling for the toppling of British rule and the establishing a "Soviet Palestine".
the newly emerging urban Indian elites in Calcutta including notable grandees such as the Tagore and Mullick clans, with both of which he enjoyed close personal and financial relationships and who, flush with the economic gains made by Hindu merchant classes under British rule, were spearheading the Bengal Renaissance,
The vote was immediately followed by a civil war in which Palestinian Arabs (supported by the Arab Liberation Army) and Palestinian Jews, fought against each other while the region was still fully under British rule.
K. A. Busia was born a prince in the kingdom of Wenchi, a part of the Ashanti Confederacy, one of the four Gold Coast Territories, then under British rule and now called Ghana.
M. Mukundan's magnum opus Mayyazhi Puzhayude Theerangalil (P. 1974 ; Malayalam for "On the banks of the Mahé River"), celebrates this river.Mayyazhi river known as the "English channel" in India during the period of British rule, because it separated British-ruled Talasery from French-ruled Mahe.
By July 1920, Mosul was in rebellion against British rule, and the insurrection moved south down the Euphrates River valley.
In 1818, during British rule in the East Indies under Stamford Raffles, the square's name was changed into Koningsplein (King's square) at the time the Governor-General's residence moved to a new palace, now known as Merdeka Palace.
Gobindram Mitter, one of the earliest Indian officials under the British rule
Kiriamiti situates a majority of the events in his narrative in postcolonial Nairobi, which, following Kenya's independence in 1963 from British rule, experienced an influx of native African inhabitants.
He hailed from a wealthy family of Zamindars and was the munsiff for Injaram during the British rule.
While Pune was known ever since the advent of the British rule as a prominent center of education, the eastern parts of the city were virtually devoid of any educational facilities.
At that time, Singapore was a self-governing state under British rule; but was preparing for a merger with the Federation of Malaya to form the Federation of Malaysia in September 1963.
Five days later the representatives of the elected delegates had an interview in London with the colonial secretary, the Duke of Newcastle, who informed them that it was now too late to discuss the question of the retention of British rule.
During the early period of British rule, the island was known as Egmont Isle, after Lord Egmont who had a 10,000 acre estate there, almost the entire island.
He also played an active role in the unification (Ekikarana in Kannada) of Karnataka which had been divided into Mysore kingdom, Bombay Presidency and Madras Presidency, during the British rule.
He along with the forces of Shah Alam II and Mir Qasim were defeated by the British forces in one of the key battles in the history of British rule in India.
Time for a Tiger is part one of Anthony Burgess's Malayan Trilogy The Long Day Wanes, "the first panel of a triptych" set in the twilight of British rule of the peninsula.
Verdala palace was restored by Governor Sir William Reid by 1858 and was the official summer residency of the Governors of Malta during British rule.
During The British rule, the entire region surrounding Bettiah was extensively used for indigo plantation.
Most of his life was spent in the Neyamatpur village in an ashram from where he kept revolting against the British Rule and Zamindari.
During the reign of Sultan Abu Bakar of Johor and under the influence of the British rule in the 1870s, a policy was initiated to modernise Johor and increase tax revenue by opening up more of the forest and swamp area for plantation purposes (initially for spices such as pepper and gambier; then followed by rubber).