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  India - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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.
India consolidated its territory by acquiring the former French settlements (see Pondicherry) in 1956 and by forcibly annexing the Portuguese enclaves of Goa and Daman and Diu in Dec., 1961.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-india.html   (6283 words)

  
 India. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
S India enjoyed greater prosperity than the north, despite almost incessant warfare; among the Tamil-speaking kingdoms of the south were the Pandya and Chola states, which maintained an overseas trade with the Roman Empire.
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.
Imperial conferences concerning the status of India were held in 1930, 1931, and 1932, and led to the Government of India Act of 1935.
www.bartleby.com /65/in/India.html   (5946 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: India
India is covered over with a network of railways, along which the chief business centres and the chief objects of interest for the traveller are situated -- the rest being accessible by journeys of a few miles by tonga along decent roads.
India consists of eight ecclesiastical provinces, seven of which are in the peninsula and the eighth in Ceylon.
In the last respect the Government of India cannot be said to be partial to Christians as compared with non-Christians; since it spends large sums of State money over a number of non-Christian religious edifices and institutions in continuance and perpetuation of the practice of their predecessors in the government of the country.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/07722a.htm   (12482 words)

  
 INDIA
Her assumption of the Imperial title in 1877, seen as a natural outcome of the personal, yet remote, relationship that had been developed over the past quarter century.
The Imperial Crown of India, used by George V at the Coronation Durbar, Delhi, 1911.
Nepal was similarly recognised in 1921, as a consequence of the enormous contribution rendered by the soldiers of that country to the Imperial war effort.
www.4dw.net /royalark/India/India.htm   (1552 words)

  
 Imperial Crown of India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Imperial Crown of India is housed with but not part of the British Crown Jewels.
The need for the new crown lay in the fact that the crown jewels themselves are forbidden to leave the United Kingdom by law.
It is the only Crown of a British Sovereign with eight half arches, in the manner of Continental European crown jewels, departing from the British tradition of the Crown having four half arches.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Imperial_Crown_of_India   (292 words)

  
 Geographia Asia - A Concise History of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
In 1858, a rumor spread among Hindu soldiers that the British were greasing their bullets with the fat of cows and pigs, the former sacred animals to Hindus and the latter unclean animals to Muslims.
India had become a profitable venture, and the British were loath to allow the Indian population any power in a system that they viewed as their own accomplishment.
Jinnah advocated the division of India into two separate states: Muslim and Hindu, and he was able to achieve his goal.
www.geographia.com /india/india02.htm   (2502 words)

  
 A Force More Powerful
Gandhi went on to direct India’s struggle for independence for nearly 30 years, steering an ever-escalating course of “noncooperation” that led to mass demonstrations, strikes, the boycott of British goods, and his frequent imprisonment.
Gandhi also fought to improve the status of India’s casteless “untouchables” and was tireless in his efforts to forge closer bonds among his nation’s numerous religious factions.
India was no longer just a patchwork on a map – it was a fluent idea in the public mind.
www.aforcemorepowerful.org /films/afmp/stories/india.php   (3248 words)

  
 Tourist Palaces in Gujarat,Imperial Palaces in Gujarat India,Gujarat Imperial Palaces Travel Guide of India
These imperial palace complex of Gujarat are so dramatic in their appearance and so evocative in their ruins, that definitely they will your spellbind.
Like beehives they were clustered throughout India, varying in size from a mighty holding like that of Nizam’s Hyderabad down to territories with less than a square mile with “His Highness’ commanding a population of 100 souls generating an annual revenue as low as Rs.
Driving through Western India, one is impressed by the numerous palaces, havelis and darbargarhs that capriciously pop past the windows of your car as you follow the sea coast or the highway turns and twists of Gujarat.
www.indiasite.com /gujarat/palacesofgujarat.html   (2079 words)

  
 British Rule in India
India didn't conform to any of the rules, not being a Dominion, but having some Dominion-like status (it was a member of the League of Nations) and not really being a colony either.
In the centre of the collar is an Imperial crown from which depends the badge of the order, this being an onyx comeo of the effigy of her late Majesty Queen Victoria within the motto of the order, and surmounted by a star, the whole being richly jewelled.
It was used between 1945 and 1947 in the context of India's membership of the United Nations, and possibly used earlier to denote India's membership of the League of Nations.
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 Tower of London: Britain's Heritage and History
As a consequence when George V, as emperor of India, attended the Delhi Durbar in 1911 to receive the homage of the Indian princes, a new crown was required.
It was supplied by the present Crown Jewellers and the cost of £60,000 was met by the India Office.
The Crown is one of the heaviest in the collection (weighing 34.5oz) and is set with emeralds, rubies, sapphires and some 6,100 diamonds.
www.camelotintl.com /tower_site/jewels/india_1911.html   (187 words)

  
 United Kingdom: Crowns on Flags
What we now call the Imperial Crown bears a very strong resemblance to the small diamond crown that Queen Victoria had made in 1870 (perhaps more so than the Tudor Crown) because she found the Imperial State Crown to be too heavy.
Prior to the accession of Edward VII (1902), the iconographic Crown was unregulated.
This is the official state crown for Scotland and would replace the St Edward's crown on any peculiarly Scottish flag, or flag created under the authority of the Scottish Executive, such as the Scottish Fisheries, or a Scottish constabulary.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/gb-crown.html   (4235 words)

  
 Prints Old & Rare - Royalty page
Beneath the portrait is a small scene of Henry being crowned on Bosworth Field.
Engraved scene from the Illustrated London News, titled "The Coronation of the King of Sweden and Norway." Shows the King seated on a throne, as the crown is placed upon his head.
The crowns are: 1) St. Edward’s Crown; 2) The Imperial State Crown; 3) The State Crown of Queen Mary, Consort of George V, and 4) The Imperial Crown of India.
www.printsoldandrare.com /royalty   (728 words)

  
 Taj Mahal Tour in Agra, Taj Mahal Tour in India,Tours to Taj Mahal Agra,Taj Mahal Tour in Agra India
Taj Mahal is a majestic monument situated in the city of Agra in India and is considered one of the seven wonders of the world.
This romantic and enigmatic monument houses the tombs of Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal and is considered the supreme exemplification of Mughal architecture in India.
Fatehpur Sikri : It was the imperial city of the Mughal dynasty between 1571 and 1584 built by the Mughal emperor Akbar.
www.trinetratoursindia.com /taj-mahal.html   (439 words)

  
 The Crown Council of Ethiopia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Imperial Crown is attached to the badge by way of an enamelled bow in the colours of the Ethiopian tricolour.
The second minting of the medal was authorized by the Crown Council on the 103rd anniversary of the Battle, on March 2, 1999.
That silver medal is in the shape of a Coptic cross with an Imperial Crown surmounting the medal.
www.ethiopiancrown.org /decorations.htm   (9211 words)

  
 Britain.tv Wikipedia - Monarchy
The term monarchy is also used to refer to the people (especially the dynasty, also known as 'royalty') and institutions that make up the royal or imperial establishment, or to the realm over which the monarch reigns.
In an absolute monarchy, the Monarch has absolute power over every aspect of the state, if not of social life in general, and a constitution may be granted or withdrawn, while a constitutional monarch is subject to it as well as any citizen (though it may grant him such priviliges as inviolability).
Also, Yuan Shikai crowned himself emperor of the short-lived "Empire of China", a few years after the Republic of China was founded.
www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Monarchy   (2773 words)

  
 india
New Imperialism is the term used to describe the expansion and conflicts/violence occurring throughout the globe from the 1840's until 1914.
Much of India was divided into divided and competing states led by Indian princes/leaders, a fragmentation that the BEIC used, playing Indian states off against each other and stepping in as a needed "ally".
The argument is that in essence the West did have advances to share, and that New Imperialism did result in further spread of scientific abilities and technology (thus improved standard of living) and even progressive ideas of law and political/ human rights.
www.hcc.hawaii.edu /distance/hist/india.htm   (2260 words)

  
 Imperial State Crown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Cross atop the Crown is set with a stone known as St. Edward's Sapphire, a sapphire taken from the ring (or possibly coronet) of Edward the Confessor.
The current Imperial State Crown was manufactured for the coronation of King George VI in 1937.
The frames of the old Imperial State Crowns of, among others, Kings George I, George IV and Queen Victoria are kept in the Tower of London.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Imperial_State_Crown   (563 words)

  
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A city near Mumbai illustrates the clash between India's traditional culture and its newly liberalized economy.
India and China reopen an ancient pass more than 40 years after it was shut by war.
In 327–325 BC, Alexander the Great invaded the province of Gandhara in NW India that had been a part of the Persian empire.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/world/countries/india.html?nav=el   (6263 words)

  
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The jewel of the imperial crown was India, which had increasingly fallen under the control of the British parliament after the Indian Mutiny of 1857-58.
To safeguard India and the route to the subcontinent, Britain annexed large swathes of territory.
It was an expensive war, with the costs exceeded all other imperial conflicts in the 19th century added together.
www.fit.edu /london/victoria.doc   (3123 words)

  
 Victoria of the United Kingdom : Queen Victoria
Her favourite Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, persuaded her to assume, by Royal Proclamation of April 28, 1876, the title of "Empress of India," reflecting the fact that she had presided over a massive expansion of the British Empire and the continued rise of Britain as an industrial power.
On January 1, 1877, at the first Imperial Assemblage (or Durbar) in Delhi, Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India.
Later in 1887, her golden jubilee brought her to new heights of popularity, and she went on to celebrate a diamond jubilee ten years later.
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 Chapter One: The passage to India
Britain ruled India through the East India Company until after the terrible rebellion of 1857-58, when India came to be ruled directly by the British crown.
Family tradition: Colonel W.A. Salmon, who served in India in the 1930s with the Highland Light Infantry and as aide to the Governor of Sind, poses with a portrait of an ancestor who was in East India Company Service; photograph by Rosan Augusta Jordan; 1979.
Englishmen arriving in India were a popular subject for illustrations, often humorous ones.
www.lib.lsu.edu /special/exhibits/india/chap1.htm   (598 words)

  
 Coat of Arms of Udaipur, Rajasthan
The last — the greatest of the three durbars, was held in 1911, depicting the splendours of India’s imperial capital before the visiting Sovereign and his Consort.
Therefore, in 1874, the plans for a Royal tour to India in the autumn of the following year became the subject of anxious deliberation, and communications passed between the authorities with a view to an understanding as to the nature of the visit.
The Imperial Assemblage held at Delhi on 1st January 1877 was an event of deep political significance, marking, as it did, the commencement of a new chapter in the history of British India, and the final ratification of a definite theory of a constitutional relationship between the Crown and its greatest dependency.
www.mewarindia.com /coat/durbar.html   (607 words)

  
 May 2001
Mounted at the centre of the cross above this crown is the sapphire worn by Edward the Confessor at his coronation in 1042 - the oldest jewel in the treasure of England.
The State Crown of Queen Mary, consort of George V. The largest diamond of this crown is the Koh-i-nor (mountain of light), a very beautiful Indian diamond, slightly tinged with green.
This is a crown of great beauty, and was made for Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, on the occasion of the coronation of George VI.
www.amfed.org /news/n2001_05.htm   (5730 words)

  
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And you may want to view the crown of 6100 diamonds which King George V wore for the the durbar in 1912.
The crown in Britain was not allowed to leave its shores.
They had come to India to announce the shift of the British-Indian capital from Calcutta to Delhi and the creation of a New Delhi.
meerutup.tripod.com /may2sep05.htm   (3184 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | The Great Game: Round two
The initiative took the form of a visit by the Prince of Wales and, although the prince appeared more interested in the ruins and monuments of the ancient Silk Road than he did in contemporary politics, it was a sign that outside governments were deeply interested in this remote part of the world.
They were just as interested in the 19th Century, when Britain and Russia fought what Rudyard Kipling popularised as "The Great Game" in the mountains and deserts of Central Asia in a battle for control to the approaches to the jewel in the British imperial crown, India.
In 1996, pre-9/11, the interest was principally in oil and gas.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4550065.stm   (934 words)

  
 Imperial Delhi,Imperial Luxury Hotel New Delhi,Imperial 5 Star Deluxe Hotel,Imperial Hotel Delhi
Imperial Delhi,Imperial Luxury Hotel New Delhi,Imperial 5 Star Deluxe Hotel,Imperial Hotel Delhi
All rooms are well appointed, with Dual line phone with dataport and voice mail, Wireless Internet, personal safe, well-stocked minibar, Fax machine, electronic door lock, Television, Iron board, Tea / Coffee making facility and 24 hrs.
Leisure facilities include a Swimming pool, The Imperial Spa, Beauty salon, Barber shop, Fitness Centre.
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