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unusual facts about Indian Empire



Cranmore chase

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.

Richard Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce

Richard Wilberforce was a great-great-grandson of the famous abolitionist William Wilberforce, and son of a judge of the Lahore High Court, India.


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Baron Meston

Baron Meston, of Agra in the Indian Empire and Dunnottar in the County of Kincardine, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

Battle of Kandahar

For his services, General Roberts received the thanks of Parliament, and was appointed both Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) and Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) in 1880, becoming a baronet the following year.

Khawaja Nazimuddin

He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) in 1926, and was knighted in 1934 by the King-Emperor, George V, when he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE).

Rajgir hills

Because the spot was protected by two parallel ridges, Ajatasatru made it the capital of the north Indian empire Magadha in the 5th century BCE, naming it Rajgriha.