British-governed India had no railways in 1849.
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During WWII, for example, he was an ambulance driver (his poor eyesight kept him out of the infantry) attached to the old British-Indian Army in India and Burma, where, among other horrors, he witnessed a famine that took the lives of millions.
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.
Ever since the British East India Company began exploiting India's riches, India has feared business development--especially foreign business development.
Even the best call-centre operators in India lose about half their employees each year (but then turnover in British call-centres is about 70%).
India has suspended payments for 12 British-made helicopters.
The India Pale Ale is a style that was developed by the British in the 19th century, maxed-out on hops to help for the long voyages to India.
What he uncovered was the story of Edward William Barton-Wright, a British engineer who was born in India and lived in Japan in the 1890s.
The country of 164 million came into being seven years later, when the British left the Indian sub-continent, partitioning it into India and Pakistan.
After independence from the British in 1947, India outlawed what was an age-old practice of untouchability of low-caste Hindus by those seen as superior by birth.
This was the most significant reforming administration of 20th-century Britain, the regime that introduced the National Health Service, nationalised one-fifth of the British economy, and granted independence to India.
"There's more than a billion people here and a lot more people with disposable incomes, " says British-born DJ Anil Chawla, who moved from London to India a few years ago.
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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Others, such as James Tooley, a British academic who advises a chain of low-cost for-profit schools in India, say private-sector education in poor countries routinely outperforms the free, taxpayer-subsidised version.
Lawmakers questioned the British-based bank over these accusations and more, demanding to know how and why its affiliates in India and elsewhere exposed the bank to black market cash.
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Boyle's film style is the contemporary correlative of a long tradition of Westerners, and British travelers in particular, presenting India as something fascinating to look at, a spectacle for consumption--now in the darkened theater, rather than the private gallery.
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