He was born in Karachi (though it was part of British India at the time).
Alan de Lastic was born in Burma when it was part of British India.
In the east, China disputes the McMahon Line, agreed by British India and a Tibet then under British rather than Chinese sway.
With the annexation of Punjab in 1849, British India reached the frontier.
The MQM is based in Sindh province, with a membership mostly comprising the descendants of Urdu-speaking migrants to Pakistan at the time of the partition of British India in 1947.
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If it gets any attention in the UK, it's seen as one more tragic consequence of World War II, with British India at the time focused on the war against Japan.
Another possibility is straightforward division (Cyprus, Ireland, British India).
Yet, in what was the first imperial education policy in British India, Macaulay aggressively pushed for English as the medium for as many Indians as possible to be given a Western education.
Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata), of which Khyber is a part, is essentially a buffer between Afghanistan and Pakistan, and was carved by British colonial rulers out of Afghan territory as a bulwark against a possible Russian invasion of British India.
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While making a radio series on the trauma of the partition of British India, and the resulting violence amid which India and Pakistan gained independence, Andrew visited an ashram, a place of retreat, and by chance met a group of women widowed at that time, who have been living in institutions ever since.
Shortly after the election, he received his invitation in a phone call from Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and on Monday Mr. Sharif invited the Indian leader to attend his own swearing-in ceremony as prime minister, recalling that both men hail from the same province of Punjab that was violently split in two when Pakistan was carved out of British India in 1947.
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Shortly after his election on Saturday, he received his invitation in a phone call from Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and on Monday Mr. Sharif invited the Indian leader to attend his own swearing-in ceremony in Pakistan, recalling that both men hail from the same province of Punjab that was violently split in two when Pakistan was carved out of British India in 1947.
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In 1818, the last of the Maratha Wars between the British and the Maratha Confederacy in India ended, securing British supremacy in India.
After the British left India in 1947, many of these traders took over the mills.
Ever since the British East India Company began exploiting India's riches, India has feared business development--especially foreign business development.
According to Madhopuri, the last time the Dalits came together as a faith was in 1925 when the British ruled India.
Sharma says Gandhi pointed out that all castes of Hindus had been treated as untouchable by the British in India, who would post signs outside their clubs saying "Dogs and Indians not allowed".
Americans regularly brewed Twinning's tea for a while in the 1700's, but then, in 1773, the British government passed the Tea Act, a measure designed to give an advantage to the British East India Company.
Throw together all the output from Hollywood and Silicon Valley to Wall Street and Tin Pan Alley, and you have a commercial empire that would have been the envy of the British East India Company or Cecil Rhodes.
What strikes the author most is the uncertainty and flux of their lives as they and their circle improvised their way through the confusion of French, Spanish and British jurisdictions in the West Indies and America, and through the creeping, morphing status of the British in India.
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British rule in India, he says (erroneously), existed to extract India's wealth for Britain's benefit.
The first British administrator of Bengal, he was instrumental in the foundation of British rule in India.
However, when the British came into India, to Varanasi and up the Ganges, they brought products from their mills.
That does not necessarily make them wrong: civil disobedience, against British rule in India, or against segregation in America, has a long, honourable history.
The visit is part of a series of high-profile British visits to India coming after the home secretary and the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson.
The area is a stronghold of the hard-line Deobandi Islamic sect, which began as a movement against British imperialism in India - the modern-day Taliban are Deobandis.
For the Soviet government and its tsarist predecessors (Tashkent was captured by the tsar's army in 1865) Central Asia was the Muslim south, a backyard (and a front-line against British mischief from India).
British-governed India had no railways in 1849.
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This 890km stretch of frontier was settled in 1914 by the governments of Britain and Tibet, which was then in effect independent, and named the McMahon Line after its creator, Sir Henry McMahon, foreign secretary of British-ruled India.
The Kashmir problem is part of the aftermath of the British partition of colonial India.
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