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5 days ago · Hicky’s Bengal Gazette was the first printed newspaper to be published in India. While the cartoon of Henry Dundas alluded to governmental control over the flow of information between Britain and Bengal, newspapers such as Hicky’s Bengal Gazette served as an alternative and public venue for the circulation of information and even the ...
4 days ago · India - Colonial Rule, Lord Hastings, Reforms: The end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 opened a new era in India by strengthening the commercial and economic arguments for completing supremacy and by removing all fear of the French.
3 days ago · What is Charles Darwin famous for? What is evolution, as Charles Darwin understood it?
4 days ago · Lord William Bentinck became the first Governor General of India in 1834 under the Government of India Act 1833.
4 days ago · Opposition to the practice of sati by evangelists like Carey, and by Hindu reformers such as Ram Mohan Roy ultimately led the British Governor-General of India Lord William Bentinck to enact the Bengal Sati Regulation, 1829, declaring the practice of burning or burying alive of Hindu widows to be punishable by the criminal courts.
18 hours ago · In 1811–12, when the king clashed with the Sicilian nobles, mostly over taxation, the British naval commander Lord William Bentinck intervened. He introduced a moderate constitution that left much power in the hands of the nobles but markedly limited the absolute powers of the throne.
6 days ago · King Charles III and Queen Camilla (centre left) with the Duke of Edinburgh (right) leave after attending the Order of the Thistle Service at St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh, for the installation ...
