• He was born in Karachi (though it was part of British India at the time).

    ECONOMIST: India's election

  • Alan de Lastic was born in Burma when it was part of British India.

    ECONOMIST: Alan de Lastic

  • With the annexation of Punjab in 1849, British India reached the frontier.

    ECONOMIST: Waziristan

  • 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.

    BBC: Pakistan's MQM party shuts Karachi offices after attack

  • 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.

    BBC: What David Cameron did not apologise for

  • Another possibility is straightforward division (Cyprus, Ireland, British India).

    ECONOMIST: Forlorn Fiji

  • 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.

    BBC: Recalling Thomas Macaulay's English legacy

  • 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.

    BBC: Andrew Whitehead

  • In 1818, the last of the Maratha Wars between the British and the Maratha Confederacy in India ended, securing British supremacy in India.

    CNN: Tuesday,

  • After the British left India in 1947, many of these traders took over the mills.

    WSJ: Indian Fiber Weaves a Crisis

  • Ever since the British East India Company began exploiting India's riches, India has feared business development--especially foreign business development.

    FORBES: India Takes Two Steps Back

  • 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.

    NPR: Tea for You and Me

  • 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.

    ECONOMIST: America and empire

  • 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.

    ECONOMIST: Retracing the steps of one 18th-century Scottish family

  • British rule in India, he says (erroneously), existed to extract India's wealth for Britain's benefit.

    ECONOMIST: Running Bosnia

  • The first British administrator of Bengal, he was instrumental in the foundation of British rule in India.

    CNN: Sunday,

  • However, when the British came into India, to Varanasi and up the Ganges, they brought products from their mills.

    FORBES: Saving India's Silk Weavers

  • That does not necessarily make them wrong: civil disobedience, against British rule in India, or against segregation in America, has a long, honourable history.

    ECONOMIST: WikiLeaks, protest and the law

  • 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.

    BBC: UK's William Hague in India to boost relations

  • British-governed India had no railways in 1849.

    FORBES: The 1870-1914 Gold Standard: The Most Perfect One Ever Created

  • The Kashmir problem is part of the aftermath of the British partition of colonial India.

    ECONOMIST: The fears in Kashmir | The

  • It was written in 1943 while he was detained in India by British forces.

    BBC: Mahatma Gandhi letter to be auctioned in Shropshire

  • Over the next 40 years, the British imported labour from India to work the sugar plantations.

    ECONOMIST: Fiji

  • The letter, typed by Gandhi when he was detained in India by British forces in 1943, contains a plea for his freedom.

    BBC: Gandhi letter

  • In India, British rule pushed aside the feudal lords and made more room for Indian business, but of course favored British business even more.

    FORBES: Can Asians Innovate?

  • On Tuesday, a spokesman for the British High Commission in India said UK consular officials in Delhi had spoken to the woman and local police.

    BBC: The Taj Mahal, Agra, India

  • 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.

    CNN: India's 'untouchables' declare own religion

  • Jaguar Land Rover, a British carmaker owned by India's Tata, took the first step towards setting up a manufacturing base in China by proposing a joint venture with Chery, a Chinese car company.

    ECONOMIST: Business this week

  • India had become steadily more difficult for Britain to rule and without India, British hegemony in the Middle East, deemed a core national interest until the disaster of Suez in 1956, was increasingly unsustainable.

    ECONOMIST: The British empire: Pondering the past | The

  • The Reverso was created in 1931 for British army officers stationed in India who requested a watch that could survive a polo match.

    FORBES: Connect

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