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Hace 1 día · The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia), and later with East Asia.The company gained control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent and colonised parts of Southeast Asia and Hong Kong.
Hace 4 días · The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown. [4] [5] The rebellion began on 10 May 1857 in the form of a mutiny of sepoys of the company's army in the garrison town of Meerut, 40 mi (64 km ...
Hace 3 días · As the war progressed, Gandhi intensified his demand for independence, calling for the British to Quit India in a 1942 speech in Mumbai. This was Gandhi's and the Congress Party's most definitive revolt aimed at securing the British exit from India.
Hace 3 días · Dr Ross Nelson, review of Inglorious Empire: What the British did to India, (review no. 2357) DOI: 10.14296/RiH/2014/2357. Date accessed: 27 May, 2024. Inglorious Empire arose from a speech given by Dr Shashi Tharoor in May 2015 at the Oxford Union in support of the motion ‘Britain Owes Reparations to Her Former Colonies ...
Hace 4 días · Rahul Gandhi, the de-facto head of the Party, is a fifth-generation scion of the fabled Nehru-Gandhi dynasty. He averaged five foreign trips every month during Modi’s first term. On the morning ...
Hace 2 días · The historian David Olusoga has said the UK is the one country left in the British empire as he likened it to being the last oblivious person at a party. Asked at Hay festival on Sunday whether the British empire had ended, the broadcaster said: “There’s one country left in the British empire that needs to liberate itself and have its independence day from its own history, and that’s ...
Hace 2 días · Some 360mn Europeans in 27 countries are eligible to vote for the European parliament from June 6-9 — here’s a handy EU guide on the process and when each country is voting. Surveys predict ...
