The East India Company was started by merchants close merchantA person involved in buying and selling items, usually between different countries. In the British Empire, this was done using a lot ...
In India during the British colonial period, the caste system was formalized through legal and administrative measures, which reinforced its rigid boundaries. The report also talked about the ...
Everyone, guess what!! Chris Martin just solved colonialism! Years of generational trauma can wrap it up! During Coldplay’s recent Mumbai concert, the singer decided to take a detour into ...
The frontman touched on Britain's past colonization of India during ... See the clip here. The British Government ruled India as a colony from 1858 until 1947, establishing the “Raj ...
When India gained independence ... and administrative centers were symbols of colonial power, their modernist vocabulary serving as a visual reminder of British authority. Colonial powers wielded ...
Delhi became India's capital on February 13, 1931, replacing Kolkata. King George V announced the shift in 1911 ...
India's Budget history began with James Wilson’s 1860 presentation under British rule, introducing income tax and fiscal ...
The UK extracted $64.82 trillion from India over a century of colonialism between 1765 and 1900 and $33.8 trillion of this went to the richest 10% -- enough money to carpet London in notes of 50 ...
It was in Burma’s oppressive heat, amid the contradictions of colonial rule, that Eric Blair began his metamorphosis into George Orwell — a writer determined to confront power in all its guises. Even ...
India’s colonisation by the British Empire is in the spotlight again. A recent report by the rights group Oxfam has found that the United Kingdom withdrew $64.82 trillion from India, between 1765 and ...
“This is our fourth visit to India ... colonial past… by acknowledging the history between two countries and treating them as equals,” one wrote. “So Coldplay’s Chris Martin, a British ...
Band frontman Martin, 47, expressed his gratitude for the warm welcome of fans, despite the British colonial rule in India in the past. “This is our fourth visit to India, and the second time to ...