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Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin, 13th Earl of Kincardine, KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC (16 May 1849 – 18 January 1917), known as Lord Bruce until 1863, was a right-wing British Liberal politician who served as Viceroy of India from 1894 to 1899.
First Women's University (SNDT Women's University) at Pune was founded by Dhondo Keshav Karve (1916) Lucknow Pact (1916) (between Indian National Congress and Muslim League) Champaran Satyagraha (1917), the first satyagraha movement led by Mahatma Gandhi in British India; August Declaration, 1917; Saddler University Commission or Calcutta ...
Viceroy's House was selected to be screened out of competition at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival on 12 February 2017. [2] [6] The film was released in the United Kingdom on 3 March 2017; [7] it was dubbed in Hindi, titled Partition: 1947, [13] and released in India on 18 August 2017. [14] [15] It was banned in Pakistan. [16]
The film is partially lost; only the first and last reels of the film are preserved at the National Film Archive of India. Some film historians believe these belong to a 1917 remake of the film by Phalke titled Satyavadi Raja Harishchandra. The status of Raja Harishchandra as the first full
The reforms take their name from Edwin Montagu, the Secretary of State for India from 1917 to 1922, and Lord Chelmsford, the Viceroy of India between 1916 and 1921. The reforms were outlined in the Montagu–Chelmsford Report, prepared in 1918, and formed the basis of the Government of India Act 1919 .
The Governor-General of India (1833 to 1950, from 1858 to 1947 the Viceroy and Governor-General of India, commonly shortened to Viceroy of India) was the representative of the monarch of the United Kingdom in their capacity as the emperor or empress of India and after Indian independence in 1947, the representative of the monarch of India.
Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy is a British television series which first aired on ITV in 1986. It depicts Lord Mountbatten 's time as Supreme Commander, South-East Asia in the Second World War , and then as Viceroy of India shortly after the war in the days leading up to Indian independence. [ 1 ]
Rangaswamy Nataraja Mudaliar was born in 1885 in Vellore, Madras Presidency, British India in a wealthy Tamil Thuluva Vellala family. His father, Rangaswamy was a successful trader and one of his uncles was the legendary doctor of Madras, M. R. Gurusamy Mudaliar.