The bal-chatri originated in East India as a trap developed and used by falconers to catch suitable birds of prey to train for use in hunting.
This genus is composed of marine species with a wide distribution, occurring off Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, French Polynesia, South Korea, Japan, Indonesia, New Caledonia, Oceania, East India, Africa.
Deosaran (surname) is a variant of a surname of East Indian origin.
Born to East Indian parents, Rashmi Mehra(Shilpa Anand) lives a wealthy and care-free life in England, often overspends money, leading her dad to question her closely.
Born in Philadelphia, he received a limited schooling, engaged in mercantile pursuits and in East India and China trade, was a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature for several years, and was a member of the city council of Philadelphia, serving as president of the select council.
Standards, now in possession of the 19th hussars, were presented to it by George III, and early in 1782 it embarked, with other reinforcements, on board the East India fleet under convoy of Admiral Sir R. Bickerton, and landed at Madras towards the end of the year.
In contrast, a snake with only a woman's head but the full body of a snake is a naga- an East Indian mythological creature.
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Launched in 2007 by the joint effort of the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages and the National Geographic Society, it has organized expeditions to language "hotspots" around the world, e.g. to Australia, Bolivia, East India.
In Chota Nagpur, East India, awareness of the famine came late in 1896 when it was discovered that the rice crop in the highlands of Manbhum district had failed entirely on account of very little rain the previous summer.
He worked for his father's company, serving as director of David Sassoon & Co. for East India and China.
Wanting to return to active service he eventually secured an audience with the Secretary at War, William Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington who refused his resignation to enable him to join the East India Company because the Crown needed officers with experience in the American colonies where trouble was expected over the Townshend Acts and the Stamp Act.
In addition to Frederick and James, Augustus had two other younger brothers: Saunders Alexius Abbott (1811–1894), also an army officer in the East India Company, who played an important part in the Battle of Mudki during the First Anglo-Sikh War, and made the rank of major-general, and Keith Edward Abbott (d. 1873), consul-general at Tabriz and later Odessa.
Several later phases of remodelling can be traced stylistically to changes initiated by Harrison’s son Richard Harrison, and his grandson Edward Harrison, who had served in the colonial government of the East India Company.
In the 17th century the then-English East India Company had been given a grant of the town of Calcutta by the Mughal Prince Shah Shuja.
Brightwell Hall was extensively remodelled circa 1663 by Sir Samuel Barnardiston MP, leader of the Suffolk Whigs and a deputy Governor of the East India Company.
Grant was born in Kidderpore, Bengal, India, the eldest son of Charles Grant, chairman of the directors of the British East India Company.
Cox's Bazar is named after Captain Hiram Cox, an officer of the East India Company, who was assigned with the charges of the current day Cox's Bazar and its adjacent areas.
Author of several books and articles on the history of North East India, he is credited with discovering the date of death of Tirot Sing and locating the grave of Thomas Jones, the Welsh missionary who first arrived in the Khasi Hills.
Coyett's son Balthasar Coyett, born to his first wife Susanna Boudaens in 1650, followed his father into service with the Dutch East India Company, eventually rising to become the Governor of Ambon.
The Committee of Public Safety had banned all joint-stock companies on 24 August 1793, and specifically seized the assets and papers of the East India Company.
George Bingham Arbuthnot (1803–1867), Major-General in the Honourable East India Company
Cornwallis, however, died in October of the same year and Lake pursued Holkar into the Punjabbut by seeing the stronger position of Yashwanrao Holker and his effort to gather all Indian princes under one flag against British, British East India Company signed treaty with Yashwantrao Holker of peace making and given back Holker all his territory with full power of sovereignty with no interference British East India Company.
Gomastha, an Indian agent of the British East India Company
East India Company College, Haileybury (1806–1858) was the training establishment for the Honourable East India Company
Hatyapuri 1979) a crime novel by Satyajit Ray gets its title from a location (Puri) on the shores of the Bay of Bengal which is a popular tourist attraction in East India.
Early in 1632, he was part of a delegation sent to London to solve trade disagreements between the English and Dutch East India companies.
On 31 December 1600, Queen Elizabeth I granted a Royal Charter to the East India Company, often colloquially referred to as "John Company".
HMY Mary, which was also presented by the Dutch East India Company to Charles the same year, had “square rigging”.
The station is served by the Eastern Railway for local trains to Belur Math, Tarakeswar, Katwa, Bandel, Sheoraphuli, Bardhaman and numerous intermediate stations (see Main Line, Chord and Tarakeswar branch line); and mail/express trains to Central, North and North-East India.
Hugh Primrose Lindsay (1765–1844), British naval captain, Director of East India Company
Cooke completed negotiations for the Portuguese surrender of Bombay, begun by Sir Abraham Shipman, and assumed office as governor on February 18, 1665, after being conveyed to Bombay by three East India Company ships.
Lenaert Jacobszoon, captain of the Dutch East India Company who, in 1618 sighted North West Cape in the north-west of Western Australia
Also in 1615 Azevedo led a huge fleet that tried to drive English East India Company ships under the command of Nicholas Downton off Surat, but after a series of engagements he ultimately failed – an incident which demonstrated that Portuguese Goa had lost the capacity to protect its monopoly of trade on the west coast of India.
Morris went to the East India Company College at Haileybury, and entered the Madras civil service, reaching India in 1818; five younger brothers also obtained employment under the East India Company.
For nearly ten years he held the post of superintendent of the East India Company's botanic garden in the Himalayas at Saharanpur.
A letter from Ajmer dated 20 September 1614 informs the British East India Company that an Englishman named Richard Steele arrived at Aleppo along with another Englishman Richard Newman in pursuit of one John Midnall who had tried to flee with the Company's provisions to India but was overtaken and captured at Tombaz and taken back to Isfahan.
A very tall and powerful man, he was about 7 feet tall; he held the Hindu flag flying high in an age when several Hindu kings like Kapilendradeva of east India, Deva Raya II of south India and Man Singh Tomar of central India defeated the Turkic invaders in different parts of India and expanded their kingdoms.
On board the ship was supercargo Willem Janszoon, former captain of the Duyfken, who wrote to the Dutch East India Company in Amsterdam about the discovery of an island during this yoyage.
A merchantman is any non-naval vessel, including tankers, freighters, or cargo ships, but not troopships; An East Indiaman was a merchantman licensed to or by an East India joint-stock company.
The East India Company exiled Jahangir after he attacked their resident, Sir Archibald Seton, in the Red Fort.
After the brig had discharged its cargoes in Cape Town, King sailed for Port Natal to search for the adventurers Francis Farewell, an East India merchant, and Francis Fynn, a physician, from whom nothing had been heard for eighteen months.
Pa Togan Sangma also known as Togan Sangma or Pa Togan Nengminja Sangma was a Garo tribe leader from Garo hills in North East India.
Vans Agnew was the second son of Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Vans Agnew, a Madras officer of considerable reputation, and afterwards a director of the East India Company.
John Goldsborough Ravenshaw II, (1777–1840), chairman of the British East India Company
Alexander Silver, a wealthy East India trader, built Netherley House, a mansion house in Netherley in the late 18th century; he and his son George Silver were noted agricultural innovators of their era.
In 1855, Captain W. S. Jacob of the East India Observatory in Madras found orbital anomalies in the binary star 70 Ophiuchi that he claimed are evidence of an extrasolar planet—the first exoplanet false alarm.
a folly, Severndroog Castle (built as a memorial to Commodore Sir William James – a former chairman of the East India Company), on Shooter's Hill in south-east London (1784).
In 1671, the East India Company sent the first of a long sequence of Church of England chaplains.
Robert Clive, a one-time East India Company clerk who had served in the company's forces during the First Carnatic War, was outraged at the weak British response to French expansion.
Sir Stephen Lushington, 1st Baronet (1744-1807), MP, Chairman of the British East India Company
Streynsham Master (1640-1724), pioneer in the British East India Company
THE Court of Directors of the East India I Company hereby give notice, that they have received a Calcutta Gazette, containing the undermentioned notice, filed in the Court for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors at Prince of Wales' Island, by Insolvent applying for his discharge, under the provisions of the 11th Victoria, cap.
Laurence Sulivan (1713-1786), British East India Company director and politician
Jnan Taranga, the first community radio service in North-East India
Sir Thomas Metcalfe, 4th Baronet (1795–1853), East India Company servant, agent to Governor General of India, son of the above
Tripuri people, original inhabitants of the Kingdom of Tripura in North-East India and Bangladesh
The Nawab of Awadh also had to pay fifty-three lakhs of rupees as war indemnity to the East India Company.
C. M. Whish (1794–1833), English civil servant of the East India Company
Sir William Langhorne, 1st Baronet (c1634–1715), early colonial administrator in British India under the East India Company