In the 19th century, Wallace’s observations were ... with the avaricious companies that dominated the economies of British India and British Malaya. This preference for state capitalism versus ...

Claiming the pen meant claiming their voices too, thus beginning a new chapter in feminist history and the empowerment of women, with its inception in the 19th century. Kolkata is home to several ...

Before this change, Kolkata had been the capital of British India since the early 19th century. However, British officials realized that Delhi was a strategic location, being nearer to the summer ...

Queen Elizabeth II renewed the honour more than a century ... British government double crossed the Regiment of Foot. Rather than being disbanded as promised, they were ordered to sail to ...

India, a rapidly developing economy ... The history of SBI goes back to the first decade of the 19th century when the Bank of Calcutta (later named the Bank of Bengal) was established in 1806.

Narrator: By the end of the 19th century, the British had controlled much of India for over 100 years. The Indian National Congress, the INC, was formed in 1885 and the idea of independence ...

Pump Park Vintage Photography/Alamy In the early 19th century ... by British troops as they razed the royal palace of Benin in 1897. World War II, which bankrupted Britain despite its victory, spelled ...

The so-called ethnic issue is a product of the 19th century British colonial Administration ... the envy and the eyesore of the Western colonial powers, while instigating India as well to follow the ...

Early in the 19th ... to India and back, only to be seized within sight of English shores – and two years’ backpay – for another year or more of service. The ‘obnoxious discipline of the British navy’ ...

whose enthralment to Lady Hamilton British pirates handled to a diplomatic disaster in Naples. Scurvy was not nearly the scourge of the fleet that everyone believes it to have been. Ridiculing another ...