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This year marks 50 years since Sikkim's integration into India. Before India's independence, the British, along with the Chogyal royals and Tibetans, played a major role in shaping Sikkim's geography ...
The Rising, a film based on the 1857 Indian revolt against the British East India Company. Directed by Ketan Mehta and ...
The East India Company (EIC) was a small enterprise ... an army of Indian POWs known as the Indian National Army, which fought against the British. A major famine in Bengal in 1943 led to the ...
He has been depicted as a fearsome commander, leading a private army of dreadlocked ... and helped in the British capture of Delhi, an event which catapulted the East India Company into the ...
The initial acquisition of India under the British East India Company and the ongoing domination under the British Raj of a population many times the size of the occupying force proved to be a ...
Underlying grievances over British taxation and recent land annexations by the English East India Company (EEIC) angered Indians and within weeks, dozens of units of the Indian army joined peasant ...
Change of rules in Indian Army hiring scheme has affected young ... Back then, they were recruited by the British East India Company. Post-independence a tripartite agreement between India ...
The story begins with the British East India Company, which, after gaining control of India, established a monopoly on its trade. The Company initially bought goods from India using silver ...