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	British Raj - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The British Raj (known from 1911 as the Indian Empire) was the period during which most of the Indian subcontinent, or present-day India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Burma, were under the colonial authority of the British Empire (Undivided India).
		Aden was part of "British India" from 1839, as was Burma from 1886; both became separate crown colonies of the British Empire in 1937.
		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/British_India (4888 words)

	West India Regiment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The West Indies had long been a peaceful backwater with limited defence requirements and the substitute role under which the WIR had provided a single battalion as part of the garrison in Britain's West African pocessions had become obsolete as local forces were raised and expanded there.
		In 1958, with the foundation of the Federation of the West Indies, it was decided to raise the West India Regiment once again.
		ISBN 976-8163-09-7 and "Slaves in Red Coats: The British West India Regiments, 1795-1815" by Roger Norman Buckley (1979) and "Slave and Soldier: The Military Impact of Blacks in the Colonial Americas" by Peter Voelz (1993)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/West_India_Regiment (964 words)

	Colored American, 5/9/1840 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		At the same time, it was left discretionary with the Colonial Legislatures of the Islands themselves, whether to give full freedom to the slaves at once, that is, on the 1st of August 1834, or to adopt the apprenticeship system as above.
		The Legislature of two of the Islands, Antigua and Bermuda, availed themselves of the opportunity fully to abolish slavery at the outset.
		The cry for complete emancipation in all the Islands arose from all quarters; the tables of the British Parliament were heaped with petitions, the country was agitated from end to end.
	amistad.mysticseaport.org /library/news/col.am/1840.05.09.brit.eman.html (332 words)

	India The British Empire in India - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, ...
		Economic competition among the European nations led to the founding of commercial companies in England (the East India Company, founded in 1600) and in the Netherlands (Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie--the United East India Company, founded in 1602), whose primary aim was to capture the spice trade by breaking the Portuguese monopoly in Asia.
		The original clusters of fishing villages (Madras and Calcutta) or series of islands (Bombay) became headquarters of the British administrative zones, or presidencies as they generally came to be known.
		South India witnessed the first open confrontation between the British and the French, whose forces were led by Robert Clive and François Dupleix, respectively.
	workmall.com /wfb2001/india/india_history_the_british_empire_in_india.html (1010 words)

	Microform Collections, West Indies
		The Conference of British Missionary Societies was founded in 1912 as a direct result of the 1910 World Missionary Conference at Edinburgh, Scotland.
		West Indies records of the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel : E series.
		The reports are a vital record of life in the West Indies at a critical and formative point of their history during the move from freedom and crown colony status to full independence.
	www.library.yale.edu /latinamerica/westindies.html (1613 words)

	British India 1818-1875 by Sanderson Beck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Metcalfe also warned that if the British empire kept its inhabitants in ignorance, their dominance would be a curse; but if they promoted enlightenment with arts and sciences to improve conditions, then the gratitude of India and the admiration of the world would accompany their name in the future.
		The British minister McNeill complained to the Shah in his camp that the siege of Herat violated their treaty, and meeting with the Herat ruler he arranged a treaty, which the Persian shah refused to ratify.
		In 1852 the Mir of Khairpur was deposed.
	www.san.beck.org /2-11-BritishIndia1818-75.html (21693 words)

	India travel guide - Wikitravel
		India [1] is the largest country in the Indian Subcontinent in the south of Asia.
		India achieved self-sufficiency in food grains by the 1970s, ensuring that the large-scale famines that had been common were now history.
		India has homegrown international airlines like Air India [9] and Indian [10] (formerly known as "Indian Airlines"), but they manage to be both affordable, dependable and provide service to the point.
	wikitravel.org /en/India (13231 words)

	British Imperialism in India
		Once the British Industrial Revolution started, they wanted easier and cheaper access to raw materials like cotton and they needed to expand overseas markets for textiles and other factory-made goods.
		During most of the 19th century, the British navy dominated the ocean traffic throughout the world.
		British naval ships began to stop merchants from other countries from transporting slaves in the Atlantic Ocean.
	www.mcps.k12.md.us /schools/wjhs/depts/socialst/mwh/british_imperialism_india.html (657 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Bahama Islands
		The most northerly group of the West Indies, are a chain of coral islands lying between 21°42' and 27°34' N. lat., and 72°40' and 79°5' W. long., composed of twenty-five permanently inhabited islands and an immense number of cays and rocks.
		Politically the Bahamas are a British Colony, being governed by a Governor and an Executive Council of eight members, a Legislative Council of nine members appointed by the Crown, and an elective legislative assembly of twenty-nine members.
		The islands are of coral formation, thus differing completely in their geological structure from the other West India Islands as well as from the adjacent mainland of Florida.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02204a.htm (1408 words)

	Subhas Chandra Bose, The Indian National Army, and The War of India's Liberation
		While in India, he was a member of the University Training Corps at school and commanded the volunteers at an annual session of the Indian National Congress, but he never had a formal military education prior to his arrival in Germany in 1941.
		To the West and South are the Chin hills of the Arakan range, a formidable stretch of inhospitable terrain.
		The British finally quit when they began to feel the foundations of loyalty being shaken among the British Indian soldiers-the mainstay of the colonial power-as a result of the INA exploits that became known to the world after the cessation of hostilities in East Asia.
	www.ihr.org /jhr/v03/v03p407_Borra.html (13316 words)

	Caribbean Islands: British West Indies
		The British West Indies are a diversified group of Caribbean islands, all are dependent areas of the United Kingdom.
		They are a subset of the Caribbean Islands, which are also called the West Indies.
		As it was clear it was not India he found, they were renamed West Indies to distinguish them from the eastern India.
	www.showcaves.com /english/car/region/BritishWestIndies.html (89 words)

	West Indies Papers - UF Special and Area Studies Collections
		Correspondence of the various colonial governors of the British West Indies together with financial accounts and pay warrants.
		Correspondence of the various colonial governors of the British West Indies, together with financial accounts and pay warrants, during the latter part of the 18th and the early half of the 19th centuries.
		Resident Merchants of the Island certify the rates of exchange for present months.
	web.uflib.ufl.edu /spec/manuscript/guides/WestIndies.htm (835 words)

	SHQ Online :: Volume 017 Number 2 :: CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE BRITISH ARCHIVES CONCERNING TEXAS, 1837-1846 VIII
		The lesser division, towards the North, consists of “low Marshy ground mixed with small lagoons.” The arable land is a rich, West Indian Soil, “suitable,” (says an agent sent to examine it)—for the Culture of Sugar, Coffee, Cotton, andc.
		He was Commissioned, in the first instance, to purchase two Square leagues of land in the island of Cozumel, proceeding according to the designated order of selection already shown in outline.
		Excluding some persons of Colour, kidnapped from the British West India Islands, who do not belong to this classification, and who were claimed by the British Government, the total of ascertained imports of Slaves into Texas, within the last ten years, from all places except the United States, Amounts to 504.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /publications/journals/shq/online/v017/n2/article_3.html (4340 words)

	British Columbia History
		This illustration shows the archway in Victoria, British Columbia, prepared for the visit of Lord Dufferin in 1876, to placate British Columbians, angry at the federal government for not living up to their promise of a transcontinental railway to the West coast.
		The Maritimes wanted nothing to do with Canada and their confederation ideas, however, the economic motives of Canada were the issue and confederation with the Maritimes was necessary as a prelude to the acquisition of the West, which offered an Empire for them to settle and exploit.
		The Liberals under Alexander Mackenzie were opposed to Macdonald’s promise of a railway for the west coast and would not allow his mind to be changed by a few noisy British Columbians, so he refused B.C.’s demands that were part of the Confederation promises.
	www.westcan.org /westcan/bchist.htm (1600 words)

	Darjeeling,Darjeeling hill station,Darjeeling tours,travel,Darjeeling trave package,Darjeeling west bengal,hill station ...
		Part of this territory was restored to the rajas of Sikkim and the country's sovereignty guaranteed by the British in return for British control over any disputes which arose with neighbouring states.
		One such dispute in 1828 led to the dispatch of two British officers to this area, and it was during their fact-finding tour that they spent some time at Darjeeling (then called Dorje Ling - Place of the Thunderbolt - after the lama who founded the monastery which once stood on Observatory Hill).
		The officers' observations were reported to the authorities in Kolkata and a pretext was eventually found to pressure the raja into granting the site to the British in return for an annual stipend of Rs3000 (raised to Rs6000 in 1846).
	www.tourmyindia.com /states/west_bengal/darjeeling.html (664 words)

	Caribbean Islands - Precursors of Independence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The first identified closely with the British system--especially with the Fabian Society of radical thinkers within the newly formed British Labour Party--and sought political reforms through conventional parliamentary channels.
		In addition to these organizers, there were a number of individuals from all the colonies who had served abroad in World War I in the West India Regiments of the British Army.
		Their war experiences left them critical of the British government and British society, and they tended to agitate for political reforms to bring self-government to the Caribbean colonies.
	countrystudies.us /caribbean-islands/12.htm (405 words)

	British Imperial Territories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		he British empire at this time was vast, including territories on every continent.
		The Gambia and Sierra Leone (West); Cape Colony, Natal, and British Kaffraria (South).
		Canadian territories of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, North West Territory, Rupert's Land, Canada West, Canada East, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Newfoundland until 1867 and the beginning of the Confederation of the Dominion of Canada.
	courses.washington.edu /hum523/india/britterr.shtml (178 words)

	Mitchell's West Indian Bibliography
		COLEBROOKE, William Maclean George – Copies or Extracts of all Correspondence of Sir WMG Colebrooke, Governor-General of the Leeward Islands, with Lord Glenelg, on the Subject of the Convention of a General Council of the Leeward Islands.
		By a British colonial administrator (1787-1870); governor of the Leeward Islands and of
		His observations on the islands and their populations of planters and slaves are sunny and superficial.
	www.books.ai /8th/Col.htm (3145 words)

	Mitchell's West Indian Bibliography
		Society for the Conversion and Religious Instruction and Education of the Negroe Slaves in the British West India Islands.
		Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, on the Condition of the Negro Population on the Codrington Estate in the Island of Barbadoes.
		A justification of the murder in Antigua of the Governor of the Leeward Islands.
	www.books.ai /8th/Sn-Stao.htm (3449 words)

	India Travel Guide and Destination Overview on Concierge.com
		India Travel Guide and Destination Overview on Concierge.com
		In stylish new hotels across India, a generation...
		The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached, or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of CondéNet Inc.
	www.concierge.com /destination/india (285 words)

	Jamaica (British Empire & Commonwealth Land Forces)
		The Caribbean Islands - A Country Study, by US Library of Congress.
		British and Canadian Regiments in Jamaica (official JDF site)
		Bibliography on the Caribbean, by US Library of Congress Country Study.
	www.regiments.org /nations/westindies/jamaica.htm (244 words)

	The West India Company. British Caribbean - West Indies philatelic stamps postal history covers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		British Caribbean - West Indies philatelic stamps postal history covers
		e deal in the stamps and postal history from the British Caribbean, mainly pre-1962 material.
		Please browse through our on-line stock and send us an e-mail is you see something of interest.
	www.westindia-co.com (90 words)

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	www.reliefweb.int /w/map.nsf/Country?OpenForm&Query=SA_India (539 words)

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