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	British East India Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The British East India Company, sometimes referred to as "John Company", was a joint-stock company which was granted an English Royal Charter by Elizabeth I on December 31, 1600, with the intention of favouring trade privileges in India.
		Internal Administration of British India – the Bill laid the foundation of the British centralized bureaucratic administration of India which would reach its peak at the beginning of the twentieth century with the governor-generalship of George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Curzon.
		By the middle of the 19th century, the Company's rule extended across most of India, Burma, Singapore and Hong Kong, and a fifth of the world's population was under its trading influence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_East_India_Company (4982 words)

	British honours system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For example the medal of the Order of the British Empire ceased to be awarded in the UK in 1993, as was the companion level award of the Imperial Service Order (although its medal is still used).
		The senior order, the Order of the Star of India, was divided into three grades, Knight Grand Commander, Knight Commander and Companion, of which the first and highest was conferred upon the Princes and Chiefs of Indian states and upon important British civil servants working in India.
		Other orders, decorations and medals which do not carry titles but entitle the holder to place post-nominal letters after his or her name also exist, as do a small number of Royal Family Orders.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_honours_system (3703 words)

	Order of the British Empire - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		At the foundation of the Order, the "Medal of the Order of the British Empire" was instituted.
		The Usher of the Order is known as the Gentleman Usher of the Purple Rod; he does not, unlike his Order of the Garter equivalent (the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod), perform any duties related to the House of Lords.
		The chapel of the order is in the far eastern end of the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral, but it holds its great services upstairs in the main body of the cathedral.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/KBE (2128 words)

	Maud of Wales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Her godparents were the King of Sweden and Norway; Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany; the Landgrave of Hesse; Prince Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg; Adelaide, the Duchess of Nassau; Marie, the Princess of Leiningen; Grand Duchess Marie Feodorovna (later empress); Crown Princess Louise of Denmark; and Cecilia, the Duchess of Inverness.
		She, along with her sisters Princess Victoria and Princess Louise, received the Imperial Order of the Crown of India from Queen Victoria on 6 August 1887.
		Prince Carl was the second son of Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark, Queen Alexandra's elder brother, and Princess Louise of Sweden.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maud,_Queen_of_Norway (752 words)

	INDIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		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 Sovereigns appeared in their Coronation robes, the King-Emperor wearing the Imperial Crown of India with eight arches, containing six thousand one hundred and seventy diamonds, and covered with sapphires, emeralds and rubies, with a velvet and miniver cap all weighing nineteen and a half ounces.
		The Imperial Crown of India, used by George V at the Coronation Durbar, Delhi, 1911.
	www.4dw.net /royalark/India/India.htm (1420 words)

	The Crown Council of Ethiopia
		The Order of Solomon, for example, is rarely given; the same applies to the Order of Solomon’s Seal, and the Order of the Queen of Sheba.
		The Order of Emperor Menelik II was founded in 1924 by the Regent, Ras Tafari Makonnen, during the reign of Empress Zauditu, and is one of the most attractive of the Imperial Orders.
		The Order is primarily intended to recognise outstanding Pan-Africanists and contributors to Pan-African heritage, and ranks equally with the Order of the Menelik II in precedence.
	www.ethiopiancrown.org /decorations.htm (9211 words)

	Imperial Order of the Dragon of Anam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Present day Imperial records trace the family to the most distant ancestor being the Grand Duke Nguyen Bac who was found mention in history books at the threshold of independence from China during the Dinh dynasty (968-980 AD).
		He ordered a dynastic seal be made, changed people's costumes, encouraged local dialects, adopting local expressions and indigenous words to further distance his domain from the north ruled by Trinh family and Lê emperor.
		Gia Long ordered the restoration of his ancestral graves with wood carvings of statues in burial chambers symbolising the lost royal remains.
	www.orderofthedragon.homestead.com /nguyen.html (7731 words)

	Coronation
		She is also Lady of the Garter, a Member of the Imperial Order of the Crown of India and a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire.
		Unfortunately the reverse of the card rather ruins the fun as it says the origin of the order is unknown but it evidently came from an initiatory ceremony of bathing.
		No disrespect to the Order and its intentions but what a shame to arrive at the party just as the coffee is being served.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/Franklyn_Roberts/king1.htm (1847 words)

	FRANCIA
		In 1494 Charles VIII invaded Italy in order to retrieve the Kingdom of Naples for France.
		The Imperial crown for Napoleon is shown with an orange nimbus.
		This is to indicate that Napoleon was crowned by the Pope (Pius VII), as with the Mediaeval Emperors, but with the irregularity that it was not in Rome and, well, Napoleon actually took the crown out of the Pope's hands and crowned himself.
	www.friesian.com /francia.htm (14221 words)

	Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		At the time of her birth, She was third in the line of succession to the crown, behind her father and her uncle, the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII.
		Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II wearing the [[Imperial State Crown and holding the Sceptre with the Cross and the Orb at her Coronation (June 2, 1953).]] After the Coronation, Elizabeth and Philip moved to Buckingham Palace in central London.
		The case was lost on the grounds that the pursuers had no title to sue the Crown, and also that the numbering of monarchs was part of the royal prerogative and not governed by the Act of Union.
	elizabeth-ii-of-the-united-kingdom.iqnaut.net (4345 words)

	Queen Elizabeth II (1926- )
		Sovereign of the Order of the National Hero, the Order of Jamaica, the Order of Merit and the Order of Distinction (Jamaica)
		Order of the National Hero, the Order of Belize and the Order of Distinction (Belize)
		Knight with Collar, the Order of the House of Chakri (Thailand)
	www.regiments.org /biography/royals/1926eliz.htm (1052 words)

	Marquess of Lansdowne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Lady Lansdowne was decorated with the Order of Victoria and Albert and the Imperial Order of the Crown of India.
		He was appointed Under-Secretary of State for India in 1880, and having gained experience in overseas administration, was appointed Governor General of Canada in 1883.
		He was appointed Viceroy to India the same year he left Canada, finally returning to England in 1894 to serve the British government until 1900.
	www.canadahistory.com /sections/politics/marquessoflansdowne.htm (515 words)

	Royal Family > Memorial sites > Princess Alice > Honours
		Princess Alice wearing the Family Orders of George V, George VI and Elizabeth II, the Imperial Order of the Crown of India and the sash and Star of the Royal Victorian Order
		Princess Alice was awarded the Imperial Order of the Crown of India in 1937 (no further appointments were made to this Order after India's independence in 1947).
		In 1975, she was made a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB).
	www.royal.gov.uk /output/Page3462.asp (116 words)

	Ch 2 Overkill
		Its scheme was imperial: the epic advance of Civilization against Barbarism: the conquistador brings the Cross and the sword, the red man shrinks back before the cavalry and railroad.
		In most instances the question of tribal existence can be resolved by reference to at treaty, statute, executive order, or agreement recognizing the tribe in question.
		In the era of the American Revolution (also known as the War of Independence, etc.), the British in America split up to some fair extent into British (Loyalists or Royalists)) and Americans (rebels, or as the winners say, patriots), along with those who were neutral, undecided, wavering, or with divided loyalties.
	www.gfisher.org /ch_3__overkill.htm (3994 words)

	JAH Roundtable (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The cabinet resigned very soon, but Konoe secured a post at the imperial court as adviser to the emperor on constitutional reform and asked Takagi to serve as a liaison between him and GHQ and to provide advice as an expert on the United States Constitution.
		In this building, which faces the Imperial Palace from across a moat, the general had his office and the GHQ draft of the Japanese Constitution of 1946 was produced.
		Excepting my name, which appears romanized in the Western name order, Japanese personal names are romanized in the family name - given name sequence in the text and footnotes of this essay in accordance with conventions among Western specialists in Japanese studies.
	www.chnm.gmu.edu /declaration/japanese/aruga2.html (9917 words)

	Gold standard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The growth of Islamic power and trade made the dinar the dominant coin from the Western coast of Africa to northern India until the late 1200s, and it continued to be one of the predominant coins for hundreds of years afterwards.
		In 1284, the Republic of Venice coined their first solid Gold coin, the ducat, which was to become the standard of European coinage for the next 600 years.
		Thus the attempts to produce alternate currencies include the introduction of Postal Money Orders in Britain in 1881, later made legal tender during World War I, and the "Greenback" party in the US, which advocated the slowing of the retirement of paper currency not backed by gold.
	gold-standard.iqnaut.net (6725 words)

	King Edward VII (1841-1910)
		Knight, the Order of the Rue Crown of the House of Saxony (Saxony)
		Knight, the The House Order of Fidelity (Baden)
		Knight with Collar, the Order of Carol I (Rumania)
	www.regiments.org /biography/royals/1841edw7.htm (1013 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - NCR stories
		It is an exhibition of the Lafayette Portraits of Princely India in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and British Council.
		The council exhibits some 60 images of royal India tracing it back to early 18th century as also some who's who of the British Empire.
		She also wears the Badge of the Imperial Order of the Crown of India.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2001/20011123/ncr2.htm (1301 words)

	ALL THE ORDERS OF CHIVALRY
		GCSI= Knight Grand Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India.
		CSI= Companion of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India.
		The membership of the Order is limit to 1900.
	www.hulthenhem.se /adel/orders.htm (437 words)

	Awards
		This is just a brief list of some of the distinctions awarded by the British crown over the last two hundred years.
		Note: A Knight Bachelor is not a member of an Order.
		Within the different Orders, classes are ranked more or less in the following order, although not all the classes are to be found in each Order:
	pollock.4mg.com /awards.html (466 words)

	Jones Jewelers : Resources
		Collection includes the 632-carat Patricia Emerald, the 563-carat Star of India (which is said to be the world's largest star sapphire and is actually from Sri Lanka), and the J.P. Morgan collection of star rubies and sapphires.
		The Imperial State Crown, Scepter and Orb are used for the opening of Parliament each year.
		Collection includes the French Crown Jewels, lots of huge diamonds, the Cote de Bretagne Spinel in the Order of the Golden Fleece, and a collection of medieval jewelry.
	jeweler.website2go.com /p18.html (704 words)

	Orders and Decorations of the United Kingdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) (1917)
		Dame of the Imperial Order of the Crown of India (CI) (obsolete since 1947)
		All orders and medals which became obsolete before 1914 have been moved to a separate section.
	www.medals.lava.pl /bc/uk1.htm (1221 words)

	[No title]
		Order of St. Micheal & St. George C.M.G. Order of St. Micheal & St. George K.C.M.G. The Imperial Order of the Crown of India C.I. The Royal Guelphic Order G.C.H. (Civil Division)
		Order of the Indian Empire C.I.E. Order of the Indian Empire G.C.I.E. Royal Victorian Order C.V.O. Royal Victorian Order M.V.O. 5th.
		Order of the British Empire G.B.E. Civil Division 1st.
	members.lycos.co.uk /MichelleCollins/index-10.html (122 words)

	Reference
		A Dark Mirror: Romanov and Imperial Palace Library Materials in the Holdings of The New York Public Library.
		During the 1920s and 1930s, much of that confiscated wealth and property was sold off by a government motivated by both ideology and financial need.
		The New York Public Library was one of the few institutional buyers of the nationalized books and manuscripts from Russian Imperial collections.
	www.nypl.org /publications/reference.cfm (3942 words)

	Memorial Sites > The Queen Mother > Life > Orders, decorations and medals
		The Queen Mother photographed wearing the Order of the Garter and the Family Orders of King George VI and The Queen
		Dame Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (GBE Civil) 1927
		The Most Noble Order of the Garter (KG) 1936
	www.royal.gov.uk /OutPut/Page1050.asp (101 words)

	TIME.com: Honors & Death -- Dec. 10, 1945 -- Page 1
		As Secretary for India, crusty, conservative old Leopold Amery had stood by Churchill's side during the war's grim years.
		In October, the King awarded the rare Imperial Order of the Crown of India to Mrs.
		Five weeks later the Amerys' elder son stood in the dock at Old Bailey and heard a judge intone:"John Amery, you now stand a self-convicted traitor to your King and country, and you have forfeited the right to live."
	www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,852571,00.html (364 words)

	abbrevs
		Recipient of the Cross of the Distinguished Order of the Solomon Islands.
		Holder of the Gold Grade of the Crown of Merit of the Order of Barbados.
		KH Member of the third class or, Knight of the Royal Order of the Guelphs of Hanover.
	www.4dw.net /royalark/abbrevs.htm (2919 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Britons Bid Farewell to Queen Mother
		LONDON, April 9 -- To the blare of bugles and the sad skirl of bagpipes, Great Britain bid farewell today to the nation’s favorite centenarian as Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother was laid to rest amid ancient ritual and military pageantry.
		More than a million people lined the streets of a hushed, solemn London as the mother of Queen Elizabeth II was carried – in an ornate coffin topped with her crown and the 106-carat Koh-I-Noor diamond – from the ceremonial funeral service at Westminster Abbey to the royal vault at Windsor Castle, west of London.
		There the Queen Mother will rest beside her husband, King George VI.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A18207-2002Apr9?language=printer (879 words)

	Strange Science: References and Acknowledgments
		Bedini, Silvio A. The Pope's Elephant: An Elephant's Journey from Deep in India to the Heart of Rome.
		Nature's Government: Science, Imperial Britain, and the "Improvement" of the World.
		The Naming of Names: The Search for Order in the World of Plants.
	www.strangescience.net /stbib2.htm (3033 words)

	Hist 4053
		Hist 4053: Class and Caste in British India
		• British India replicated a hierarchy fading in Britain itself
		--Most Exalted Order of Star of India (est.
	www.colorado.edu /history/chester/empireoutline20.htm (132 words)

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