X-Nico

unusual facts about Colonial India


Sirnapally Waterfalls

Sirnapally Rani or Seelam Janaki bai of Siranapally Fort was a landlord family and owned thousands of acres in pre-independence era.



see also

Khalat

Stewart Gordon, "Robes of Honour: Khilat in Pre-Colonial and Colonial India".

Parliament of the World's Religions

Later he became a major force in the revival of Hinduism in India and contributed to the notion of nationalism in colonial India.

Sharpe's Tiger

Rather than do this, he adopts a "prequel" approach and uses an earlier campaign period in the history of the British Army, that of colonial India.

The Waves

Percival (partially based on Woolf's brother, Thoby Stephen) is the god-like but morally flawed hero of the other six, who dies midway through the novel on an imperialist quest in British-dominated colonial India.