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6 giorni fa · But P Thankappan Nair, who passed away on Tuesday aged 91, was fascinated by Calcutta’s lanes, bylanes, thoroughfares and colonial architecture. He would spend hours, mostly barefoot, soaking in the sights and talking to people. Curiosity led Nairda, as he began to be fondly called in his adopted city, to scan archives, corporation records ...
2 giorni fa · Though some of Britain’s most powerful political leaders became secretaries of state for India in the latter half of the 19th century, actual control over the government of India remained in the hands of British viceroys—who divided their time between Calcutta and Simla —and their “steel frame” of approximately 1,500 Indian ...
2 giorni fa · King George V journeyed to India for his coronation durbar (audience) in Delhi, and there, on December 12, 1911, were announced the revocation of the partition of Bengal, the creation of a new province, and the plan to shift the capital of British India from Calcutta to Delhi’s distant plain.
4 giorni fa · In 1911, King-Emperor George V announced the annulment of the first partition of Bengal and the transfer of India's capital from Calcutta to New Delhi. At the Delhi Durbar on 12 December 1911, Emperor George V announced the transfer of the seat of the government of India from Calcutta to Delhi, the reunification of the five ...
3 giorni fa · Right after coronation of Sangram II, Bahadur Shah granted the territories of Mandal and Pur to one Ranabaaz Khan Mewati. Sangram did not give the possession of these territories to Mewati which lead to the Battle of Bandanwara in 1711.
3 giorni fa · These were the answers, with Mughal consent, to increasing Indian insecurity. The Madras factory was already fortified, and Fort William in Calcutta followed in 1696. The company thus had, with independent Bombay, three centers of Indian power.
2 giorni fa · History of South Asia. The Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent mainly took place between the 13th and the 18th centuries. Earlier Muslim conquests in the subcontinent include the invasions which started in the northwestern subcontinent (modern-day Pakistan ), especially the Umayyad campaigns during the 8th century.
