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5 days ago · East India Company, English company formed in 1600 for the exploitation of trade with East and Southeast Asia and India. Starting as a monopolistic trading body, the company became involved in politics and acted as an agent of British imperialism in India from the early 18th century to the mid-19th century.
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1 day ago · The British were also interested in trans-Himalayan trade routes, as they would create access to untapped markets for British manufactured goods in Tibet and China. This economic interest was showcased by the Anglo-Nepalese war (1814–1816).
May 11, 2024 · GUWAHATI: In a first, a British-Indian person of Assamese origin, Ayesha Hazarika has been appointed as a member to the House of Lords, the upper chamber of the British Parliament. A journalist ...
2 days ago · Section 3 of the Citizenship Act deemed every person born in India on or after January 26, 1950, to be “a citizen of India by birth.”. Nestled under Article 11 of the Constitution, the Act ...
2 days ago · Assam, which is shaped roughly like a Y laid on its side, is a land of plains and river valleys. The state has three principal physical regions: the Brahmaputra River valley in the north, the Barak River (upper Surma River) valley in the south, and the hilly region between Meghalaya (to the west) and Nagaland and Manipur (to the east) in the south-central part of the state.
4 days ago · In India, the term “British Colonialism” refers to the British government’s control over its colonial territories. The term “colonialism” describes a situation in which a colonizing nation uses economic, military, and political tools to directly rule a conquered state. The period of direct British authority over India from 1858 to ...
3 days ago · Company rule in India (sometimes Company Raj, from Hindi: rāj, lit. 'rule') was the rule of the British East India Company on the Indian subcontinent.This is variously taken to have commenced in 1757, after the Battle of Plassey, when the Nawab of Bengal Siraj ud-Daulah was defeated and replaced with Mir Jafar, who had the support of the East India Company; or in 1765, when the Company was granted the diwani, or the right to collect revenue, in Bengal and Bihar; or in 1773, when the Company ...
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