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	British Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The British Empire was, at one time, referred to as "the empire on which the sun never sets" because the empire's span across the globe ensured that the sun was always shining on at least one of its numerous colonies.
		The overseas British Empire (in the sense of British oceanic exploration and settlement outside of Europe and the British Isles) was rooted in the pioneering maritime policies of the English King Henry VII, who reigned from 1485 to 1509.
		Indian sepoy Mangal Pandey was hanged as a punishment for having attacked and injured British superiors at the introduction of the rifle increasing tension at a time when Indians had become to resent decades of British rule under which they felt like second class citizens; exploited and seen as incapable of Home Rule.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Empire (8033 words)

	British Raj - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The British Empire at its zenith in 1919.
		Much of the territory under British sway during this time was not directly ruled by the British, but were nominally independent Princely States which were directly under the rule of the Maharajas, Rajas, Thakurs and Nawabs who entered into treaties as sovereigns with the British monarch as their feudal superior.
		The first steps were taken toward self-government in British India in the late 19th century with the appointment of Indian counsellors to advise the British viceroy and the establishment of provincial councils with Indian members; the British subsequently widened participation in legislative councils with the Indian Councils Act of 1892.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Indian_Empire (4566 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : British Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Formal empire in India, beginning with the Government of India Act of 1858, was a means of consolidation, reacting to the abortive Indian Mutiny, which was in itself a conservative reaction among Indian traditionalists to British policy in the subcontinent.
		The last territorial expansion of the British Empire was the annexation of Rockall to the west of the Outer Hebrides in 1955.
		British withdrawal from the southern and eastern parts of Africa was complicated by the region's white settler populations: Kenya had already provided an example in the Mau Mau Uprising of violent conflict exacerbated by white landownership and reluctance to concede majority rule.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /British_Empire (6127 words)

	Learn more about British Empire in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The British Empire, which in the early decades of the 20th century covered nearly 30 million square kilometress with a population of 400-500 million people (roughly a quarter of the world's population), was the second most extensive area under a single country's rule in history, after the Mongol Empire of the 13th century.
		The British Empire came together over 300 years through a succession of phases of expansion by trade, settlement or conquest, interspersed with intervals of pacific commercial and diplomatic activity or imperial contraction.
		The period is sometimes referred to as the end of the "first British Empire", indicating the shift of British expansion from the Americas in the 17th and 18th centuries to the "second British Empire" in Asia and later also Africa from the 18th century.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /b/br/british_empire.html (1117 words)

	British Empire page
		After the Suez Canal was built in Egypt the Canal Zone was a British base to protect it and Egypt itself became a protectorate, and Aden at the southern tip of Arabia was a fueling point for ships passing from Suez to India and a Naval base for patrolling the Red Sea and Indian Ocean.
		From here British traders extended to the island of Borneo where two colonies were formed in the north, one the quasi-feudal state of Sarawak, ruled by the so-called White Rajahs of the Brooks family, the other North Borneo (now Sabah).
		It is the post-British Empire world and the common language is English, which continues to be used as the language of government in many of the successor states, along with the procedures of the British Civil Service.
	www.angelfire.com /mac/egmatthews/worldinfo/europe/empire.html (3959 words)

	British Empire: Articles: Britain and the Indian Caste System
		Caste was seen as the essence of Indian society, the system through which it was possible to classify all of the various groups of indigenous people according to their ability, as reflected by caste, to be of service to the British.
		To the British, viewing the caste system from the outside and on a very superficial level, it appeared to be a static system of social ordering that allowed the ruling class or Brahmins, to maintain their power over the other classes.
		This justifies the British belief that their role in India is to raise the society to a higher level of civilization and that without their influence India would be doomed to stagnation.
	www.britishempire.co.uk /article/castesystem.htm (9238 words)

	The British Empire In the Indian Subcontinent
		India was controlled by British Viceroys, but there would still be Indian princes who would rule over the seperate states of India In the 40 years from 1858-1909 Britian worked on creating a bureaucracy in India, one that would be the largest in all of the Imperial world.
		Indians had just started to learn to live together and were trying to put their country together, because this system had not yet been completed many Indian rulers were much more willing to trust the British.
		The British were far superior than many of their European counterparts and had control of the Indian ocean which allowed them to control the trade to and from India by sea.
	www.angelfire.com /nh/kashmir/british.html (1158 words)

	Battle of Ghuznee - First Afghan War
		Combatants: British and Indians of the Bengal and Bombay Armies and the army of Shah Shuja against the Afghans of Dost Mohammed.
		The British colonies in India in the early 19th Century were held by the Honourable East India Company, a powerful trading corporation based in London, answerable to its shareholders and to the British Parliament.
		The British Viceroy in India, Lord Auckland, and his advisers planned an invasion of Afghanistan to combat the siege of Heart and to place an Ameer favourable to Britain on the throne in Kabul, the Afghan capital, in place of the existing incumbent, Dost Mohammed.
	www.britishbattles.com /first-afghan-war/ghuznee.htm (1846 words)

	English and British Empire, Possessions c.1497-1800
		The "Empire" can also refer (as is usually the case) to the aggrandizement of Britain's possessions over the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and to the eventual decline of the empire in the twentieth.
		Newfoundland is Britain's oldest colony and essentially the first settlement of "the British Empire." English settlers colonized it from 1497 on, and it was formally recognized as a British-owned territory by the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713.
		The British captured a nearby island and, in the 1750s, occupied the areas in Senegal that had been settled by the French and were being run by the French East India Company.
	estc.ucr.edu /britem.html (2076 words)

	eBay - indian empire, Furniture, Antiquarian Collectible items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		British Empire Exhibition - Indian Pavilion - Wembley
		Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire by...
		Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire *NEW
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	Victorian History -- The British Empire, an Overview
		Why did the British Empire expand so rapidly between 1870 and 1900?
		Defending the Cultural Margins in 1860, or Drummed out of the Indian Army: The Case of Lt. Kennedy
		Science and Empire in Victorian Ireland: The Evidence of British Association Meetings in Ireland
	www.victorianweb.org /victorian/history/empire/empireov.html (172 words)

	British Indian Ocean Territory (British Empire & Commonwealth Land Forces)
		Britain granted Mauritius independence in 1965 on condition that the Chagos Archipelago (1,300 miles from Mauritius) be detached to create the British Indian Ocean Territory, which remains a British possession.
		In 2000 these islanders won a British court ruling allowing them to resettle in the Chagos Archipelago.
		The US military facilities have been used as a staging area for conflicts such as the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
	www.regiments.org /nations/indianocean/biot.htm (319 words)

	Strangers in the Land: The Rise and Decline of the British Indian Empire - Wal-Mart
		Strangers in the Land: The Rise and Decline of the British Indian Empire - Wal-Mart
		The British in India, first as adventurers and traders, and finally as rulers through the India Office in London and the Viceroy's Government in India, oversaw all aspects of Indian life.
		All was recorded in detail, yielding the rich sources which, together with a vast library of traveler's tales and personal memoirs, underpin this study.
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	British Empire in 1914 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		At the beginning of the 20th century the British Empire covered more than 11,400,000 square miles of territory.
		The foundations for the empire were laid between 1750 and 1850 during which Britain acquired India, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, Rhodesia, Hong Kong, Gibraltar, several islands in the West Indies and various colonies on the African coast.
		The late 19th century saw the acquisition of new territories in Africa and by 1900 the British king, Edward VII, reigned over 410,000 million people.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWempire.htm (152 words)

	Strangers In The Land; The Rise and Decline of the British Indian Empire:Roderick Cavaliero:1860647979:eCampus.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Strangers In The Land; The Rise and Decline of the British Indian Empire:Roderick Cavaliero:1860647979:eCampus.com
		Strangers In The Land; The Rise and Decline of the British Indian Empire
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