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Onake Obavva was a woman who fought the forces of Hyder Ali single-handedly with a pestle (Onake) [27] in the kingdom of Chitradurga. Mai Sukhan, with her small Sikh forces, strongly defended the town of Amritsar against external forces. While, Velu Nachiyar, was one of the earliest Indian queens to fight against the British colonial power in ...
British women started to come in much greater numbers after the 1869 completion of the Suez Canal, which enabled a faster maritime journey between Britain and India; by then, British men's dalliances with the local "bibis" were seen as improper, and were being expunged from official records of earlier generations. [17]
The status of women in India has been subject to many great changes over the past few millennia. With a decline in their status from the ancient to medieval times ...
The empire, also called the British Raj and sometimes the British Indian Empire, consisted of regions, collectively called British India, that were directly administered by the British government, and regions, called the princely states, that were ruled by Indian rulers under a system of paramountcy, in favor of the British. The Dominion of ...
[10] Revolutionary violence had already been a concern in British India; consequently in 1915, to strengthen its powers during what it saw was a time of increased vulnerability, the Government of India passed the Defence of India Act, which allowed it to intern politically dangerous dissidents without due process and added to the power it ...
The Imperial Order of the Crown of India is an order in the British honours system. The Order was established by Queen Victoria when she became Empress of India in 1878. [ 1 ] The Order was open only to women, and no appointments have been made since the Partition of India in 1947.
India’s government proposed legislation Friday in Parliament that seeks to replace a British colonial-era sedition law with its own version. The government also submitted a bill that it said ...
The region under British control was commonly called India in contemporaneous usage and included areas directly administered by the United Kingdom, which were collectively called British India, and areas ruled by indigenous rulers, but under British paramountcy, called the princely states.