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The term has also been used to refer to the "British in India". [141] The terms "Indian Empire" and "Empire of India" (like the term "British Empire") were not used in legislation. The monarch was officially known as Empress or Emperor of India and the term was often used in Queen Victoria's Queen's Speeches and Prorogation Speeches.
Vijay Prashad, born August, 1967, is an Indian historian, author, journalist, political commentator, and Marxist intellectual. [1] [2] He is the executive-director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, Editor of LeftWord Books, Chief Correspondent at Globetrotter, [3] and a senior non-resident fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China. [4]
David Kenneth Fieldhouse, FBA (7 June 1925 – 28 October 2018) was an English historian of the British Empire. Fieldhouse was born to missionary parents in Mussoorie, northern India. He was sent to England for his education at Dean Close School, Cheltenham, from 1938 to 1943. Fieldhouse then completed naval service, before reading history at ...
The history of independent India or history of Republic of India began when the country became an independent sovereign state within the British Commonwealth on 15 August 1947. Direct administration by the British, which began in 1858, affected a political and economic unification of the subcontinent. When British rule came to an end in 1947 ...
The Times said the podcast had an "unbeatable formula" and the "best podcast on the British Empire". [10] [11] The Australian described the podcast as "ambitious". [12] Arifa Noor on the Dawn wrote "Empire is more of a meandering, leisurely walk through a historical period, with detours and gentle rests and a pace which can be brisk or slow". [13]
Territorial population distribution of the British Empire (1925) [2] British India (70.9986%) British Africa (10.6836%) United Kingdom (10.5308%) Other Asian colonies (2.9769%) British North America (2.0139%) Australasia and Pacific (1.6925%) Other colonies (1.1037%) The following table gives the population of the British Empire and its ...
The mature Indus civilisation flourished from about 2600 to 1900 BCE, marking the beginning of urban civilisation on the Indian subcontinent. It included cities such as Harappa, Ganweriwal, and Mohenjo-daro in modern-day Pakistan, and Dholavira, Kalibangan, Rakhigarhi, and Lothal in modern-day India.
Richard Grove. Richard Hugh Grove (21 July 1955 – 25 June 2020) was a British historian, environmental activist, and one of the contemporary founders of environmental history as an academic field. His prizewinning book, Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism 1600–1860 (1995), was ...