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	India - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		India's rainfall, which depends upon the monsoon, is variable; it is heavy in Assam and West Bengal and along the southern coasts, moderate in the inland peninsular regions, and scanty in the arid northwest, especially in Rajasthan and Punjab.
		The holy cities of India attract pilgrims from throughout the East: Varanasi (formerly Benares), Allahabad, Puri, and Nashik are religious centers for the Hindus; Amritsar is the holy city of the Sikhs; and Satrunjaya Hill near Palitana is sacred to the Jains.
		In NW India, beyond the reach of the medieval dynasties, the Rajputs had grown strong and were able to resist the rising forces of Islam.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-india.html (6239 words)

	India. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Goats and sheep are raised in the arid regions of the west and northwest.
		The British East India Company (see East India Company, British), which established trading stations at Surat (1613), Bombay (1661), and Calcutta (1691), soon became dominant and with its command of the sea drove off the traders of Portugal and Holland.
		Robert Clive’s defeat of the Nawab of Bengal at Plassey in 1757 traditionally marks the beginning of the British Empire in India (recognized in the Treaty of Paris of 1763).
	www.bartleby.com /65/in/India.html (5946 words)

	Manas: History and Politics, British India, Surat
		The "outer politics" of the city was thus characterized by accommodation to the Mughals and then the British, and this took the form of deferential behavior, tribute, acceptance of imperial patronage, and even small acts of resistance.
		The newly emerging English-educated elites, seeking to justify their assumption of leadership roles, turned to "British historical theories" to suggest that there was "a universal tendency for societies to move from social stages in which leadership was based upon hereditary qualities to those in which it was founded upon public capabilities" (p.
		They might have disputed with the British where Indians stood on the evolutionary scale from 'backward' to 'progressive', or how far Indians had moved from habitation in 'village communities' to creating institutions with a measure of self-governance, but they did not dispute that there was such a scale (p.
	www.sscnet.ucla.edu /southasia/History/British/Haynes.html (2194 words)

	First Afghan War - Battle of Kabul and Retreat to Gandamak
		Following the British capture of Kandahar and Ghuznee Dost Mohammed, whose replacement on the throne in Kabul by Shah Shujah was the purpose of the British expedition into Afghanistan, despairing of the support of his army fled to the hills.
		Sir William Cotton was replaced as commander in chief of the British and Indian forces by General Elphinstone, an elderly invalid now incapable of directing an army in the field, but with sufficient spirit to prevent any other officer from exercising proper command in his place.
		The fate of the British and Indian forces in Afghanistan in the winter of 1840 to 1841 provides a striking illustration of the collapse of morale and military efficiency where the officers in command are indecisive and wholly lacking in initiative and self-confidence.
	www.britishbattles.com /first-afghan-war/kabul-gandamak.htm (2039 words)

	History of British Rule in India - Indian agents loyal to the British empire, Maharajas, Early Congress
		Loyalist forces made frequent and fervent appeals to the Indian masses to be patient with the British, to be content with the slow pace of political reforms, and to be grateful for minor concessions concerning self-rule.
		In one of his briefs in praise of British General Thornhill, Salar Jung acknowledged that Hyderabad was seeped in disaffection with the British, and seeing the grave danger to British rule, acted quickly to fend off the challenges to British colonial presence.
		Though it appears from his speeches that his views were not motivated by consciously divisive or communal intent, the effects of his propagandizing sowed the seeds for the elaboration and development of the highly pernicious two-nation theory, and ultimately to the bloody partition of the Indian subcontinent.
	india_resource.tripod.com /loyalism.html (2633 words)

	India Overland
		India was often referred to as the "Jewel in the Crown".
		Literally, one of the world's largest diamonds, the Koh-i-Noor, was found in India, and is currently a part of the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom; figuratively, India was the most valuable country that the British ruled until its independence in 1947.
		This act allowed any British firm to trade with India, unless specifically prohibited by act of parliament, thereby annulling the charter that was in vogue for almost 100 years.
	www.indiaoverland.biz /overland/info/eic.html (3133 words)

	Defenceindia : Indian Navy
		India is a maritime nation strategically straddling the Indian Ocean with or substantive seaborne trade.
		India purchased nearly two squadrons of the vertical and short takeoff and landing (VSTOL) Sea Harriers to replace an earlier generation of Sea Hawks.
		The Western Naval Command is headquartered in Bombay on the Arabian Sea; the Southern Naval Command in Kochi (Cochin), in Kerala, also on the Arabian Sea; and the Eastern Naval Command in Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, on the Bay of Bengal.
	www.defenceindia.com /defenceind/indian_navy.html (1061 words)

	British India Command - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The British India Command the name given to the general staff of the Commander-in-Chief (C-in-C), India.
		The Commander-in-Chief, India reported to the civilian Governor-General of India.
		During World War II after the dissolution of ABDACOM and before the creation of SEAC the C-in-C India was also responsible for Ceylon and the Burma Campaign.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_India_Command (213 words)

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		Gorkhas and British East India Company fought against each other during their military campaigns out of which both stimulated respect and admiration for one another which later contributed to national level agreement that gave British the right to recruit Gorkhas under their Government and hence “British Gurkhas” was born.
		One of the British generals wrote in 1815: “they are hardy, cheerful and endure privations and are very obedient, have not much of the distinction of caste and are a neutral kind of Hindu.
		Gurkhas continues to serve the British with the same passion, attitude and faith and their courage, loyalty and ability as an honorable and a fearsome soldier of the world has never been questioned and presumably will never be.
	www.gurkhas-kukris.com /gurkhas_history (2367 words)

	indiatml3
		By 1858, the British had put down the "Mutiny" and restored order; one major result was the Act for the Better Government of India, which formally ended East India Co. rule and officially transferred administration of India and its commerce to the British crown.
		Thereafter, India became the major springboard for British "gunboat diplomacy" overseas, while important fiscal, legal, educational, and social reforms, and public works, were enacted in British India.
		Tagore was born in 1861, during the British colonial era in India.
	web.cocc.edu /cagatucci/classes/hum210/tml/IndiaTML/indiatml3.htm (2442 words)

	Coming of the Europeans
		The Simon Commission, constituted in November 1927, by the British Government to prepare and finalize a constitution for India, and consisting of members of the British Parliament only, was boycotted by all sections of the Indian social and political platforms as an 'All-White Commission'.
		They also urged the British government to convene the proposed Round Table Conference in which the constitutional problems of India were could be discussed.
		India’s arbitrary entry into the World War II was strongly opposed by Subhash Chandra Bose, President of the Congress in 1937 and later in1939.
	www.indiaheritage.org /history/history_struggle_freedom.htm (3296 words)

	British India Command - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		Most of the C-in-C's staff were based at the General Headquarters India (GHQ India).
		World War II During World War II after the dissolution of ABDACOM and before the creation of SEAC the C-in-C India was also responsible for Ceylon and the Burma Campaign.
		During this period Chinese and American units also came under the operational control of the India Command.
	www.music.us /education/B/British-India-Command.htm (409 words)

	Indian History - British Period - Towards Independent India
		British troops marched to the park accompanied by an armored vehicle on which machine guns were mounted.
		British Government also conceded the right to make salt for consumption to villages long the coast, as also the right to peaceful and non-aggressive picketing.
		The demand stated that the geographically contiguous regions of India where the Muslims are a majority like the North West and the Eastern side of India should be constituted as independent states.
	www.gatewayforindia.com /history/british_history4.htm (4655 words)

	Manas: History and Politics, British India
		Mill took the view, in the words of the Orientalist H. Wilson, that "a command of the English language, sufficient for the ordinary purposes of life, is quite compatible with gross ignorance and inveterate superstition" (p.
		Viewing India as a collection of village communities, deemed to have existed from time immemorial, these 'romantics', while not condoning social evils, were concerned about the possible effects of modernization and Westernization upon Indian society, and feared that rapid changes would render Indians hostile to British rule (pp.
		The excesses committed by the British in putting down the Rebellion and in subsequent 'disturbances' (such as in the Punjab in 1919) were easily criticized by arm-chair critics, but -- it was claimed -- often administrators had no choice except to put down rebellions by a display of brute force.
	www.sscnet.ucla.edu /southasia/History/British/jsmill.html (3201 words)

	Political Aspects of British India
		In India, there is a Prime Minister who is the head of the Council of Ministers.
		The Sepoy Rebellion occurred because of a rumor that gunpowder cartridges were greased with the fat of hogs and cows.
		The Indian soldiers were commanded to bite into these to open them to use for battle, but the hog is considered unclean by the Muslims and the cow is sacred to the Hindus, so neither group would obey the command.
	members.tripod.com /~IndiaProject/political.html (555 words)

	British Far East Command - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		British India Command under General Sir Archibald Wavell the Commander-in-Chief (CinC) of the Army of India and the Far East Command under Air Marshal Robert Brooke-Popham and from December 23, 1941 by Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Royds Pownall.
		The CinC Far East Command was responsible directly to the Chiefs of Staff for the operational control and general direction of training of all British land and air forces in Malaya, Burma, and Hong Kong, and for the co-ordination of plans for the defence of those territories.
		ABDACOM absorbed the British command in its entirety and CinC Far East Command Henry Royds Pownall became Wavell's Chief of Staff.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Far_East_Command (679 words)

	The Amritsar Massacre
		After the was British officials, who in the first flush of patriotism had abandoned their ICS posts to rush to the front, returned to oust the Indian subordinates acting in their stead and carried on their prewar jobs as though nothing had changed in British India.
		It is thus hardly surprising that the flash-point of postwar violence that shook India in the spring of 1919 was Punjab province.
		The actual issue that served to rally millions of Indians, arousing them to a new level of disaffection from British rule, was the government of India's hasty passage of the Rowlatt Acts early in 1919.
	www.postcolonialweb.org /india/history/colonial/massacre.html (628 words)

	Why It’s Important To Know About India - FPRI
		Although the United States and India were not overtly hostile, the governments, politicians, and the press in both countries were sharply critical of each other’s policies, marking the beginning of a long estrangement.
		One was to find unity in India’s pluralistic and fragmented society; another was awareness of the communal riots that became increasingly common as India moved toward independence and that were to merge into the horrors of Muslim-Hindu riots that marked the partition of British India into Pakistan and India.
		It was such a demand that brought India its freedom, but when the various declarations of rights by the UN implied that groups within a sovereign nation had the right to self-determination—meaning, the right of secession—India made a vigorous protest that such rights applied only to peoples under foreign domination.
	www.fpri.org /footnotes/113.200606.embree.indiaimportant.html (2581 words)

	British Empire: The Map Room: Asia: India
		The British were therefore able to contain the spread of much of the rebellion.
		The British were also helped by the lack of a coordinated command structure amongst the rebels.
		The British government was unable to resist the pressure for major political reform once order had been restored.
	www.britishempire.co.uk /maproom/india.htm (4353 words)

	China Burma India Theater of World War II - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		Initally the forces were split between those who came under the operational command of the British India Command under General Sir Archibald Wavell the Commander-in-Chief in India and those in China, which (technically at least) were commanded by Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek,http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/wwii/sp1943-44/chapter19.htm as the Supreme Allied Commander in China.
		When the joint allied command was agreed upon, it was decided that the senior position should be held by a member of the British military because the British dominated Allied operations on the South-East Asian Theatre by weight of numbers (in much the same way as the US did in the Pacific Theater of Operations).
		Stilwell, who also had operational command of the Northern Combat Area Command (NCAC), a US-Chinese formation, was supposed to report to General George Giffard — commander of Eleventh Army Group — so that NCAC and the British Fourteenth Army, under the command of General William Slim, could be co-ordinated.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=904055 (1242 words)

	Chapter VIII: THE PRINCIPLE OF CONCENTRATION IN THE BRITISH ISLES
		The range of disagreement between the British and American staffs over the defense of that whole area was within the same relatively narrow limits as the disagreements within,the Army and between the War and Navy Departments on the defense of the Pacific.
		The fact that the London agreement involved no discussion with the British of the defense of the Middle East and India, parallel with the previous Army--Navy discussion of the defense of the Pacific, was a direct result of the irregular manner in which the American proposal was drawn up and presented.
		The Commanding General, ETOUSA, was directed to co-operate with the fortes of the British Empire and other nations but to keep in view the fundamental rule "that the forces of the U. are to be maintained as a separate and distinct component of the combined forces.
	www.army.mil /CMH/books/wwii/Sp1941-42/chapter8.htm (8331 words)

	india tour,tour to india,india package tour,india nepal tour
		Amongst the British merchants sailing down the river Hoogly was one Job Charnock who rowed ashore to Sutanati, one of a cluster of three villages, the other two being Govindpur and Kalikata.
		The temples of Khajuraho are India's unique gift to the world, representing, as they do, a paean to life, love, to joy-perfect in execution and sublime in expression.
		This port is the headquarters of the Eastern Command of the Indian Navy and is the most modern shipyard.
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	India Tours, India Travels, Tour To India, Tour Packages, Travel Agents, Tour Operator, Holiday Packages, Hotel Booking
		After a leisurely breakfast proceed for sightseeing tour of New Delhi where ornate buildings recall the days when India was the Jewel in the crown of the British empire.
		Built to commemorate the royal visit of George V and Queen Mary in 1911 but only completed in 1924, the gateway is a combination of European and Indian ceremonial architecture.
		It may be possible that we may have to go for a higher / lower category of hotels/ rooms in any place and we shall advice you of any supplement / reduction in the price.
	www.bookmytrip.in /packages/images_of_india.htm (1594 words)

	India (British Empire & Commonwealth Land Forces)
		India consisted of crown territories and 620 protected princely states.
		What was once British India now consists of four sovereign nations: India, Burma, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
		The Victoria Cross in India, by Ed Haynes.
	www.regiments.org /nations/southasia/india.htm (757 words)

	British India -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The following is a list of volumes produced in the Fauna of British India series.
		Volumes in the series of ''The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma'' published by Taylor and Francis, London.
		World War II During World War II after the dissolution of ABDACOM and before the creation of SEAC the C-in-C India was also responsible for Ceylon and the Burma Campaign.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/23/british-india.html (358 words)

	Nepal Gurkhas kukris and Khukuri House are inseparable- USA
		receiving treatment from his British adversaries, the British were expecting him to surrender but he audaciously said no and headed back to the fort to resume the battle.
		The Gorkhas and their women threw every kind of missile at the British soldiers until, out of food, water and ammunition; the fort finally gave in to the attacks.
		The clause gave the British army the right to recruit Nepalese citizens.
	www.khukurihouseonline.com /Content/Gurkhas (2437 words)

	Visiting Fellowship - Charles Wallace India Trust - British Council - India
		The successful journalist will be attached to the Reuter Foundation at Green College, University of Oxford, for one term (three months) and will work on a project which he or she will have outlined in his or her application, and attend seminars and discussions at the Foundation.
		The applications received will be short-listed by the British Council, Delhi, in consultation with the Reuter Foundation and the Charles Wallace India Trust.
		Information sheets and application forms are available from all British Council offices and British libraries nearer the time of applying.
	www.britishcouncil.org /india-scholarships-cwit-full-iqbal.htm (308 words)

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