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[1]: 54 In 1858, the Punjab, along with the rest of British India, came under the rule of the British Crown. Following the Indian mutiny, Punjab became a lieutenant-governor's province under the Bengal Presidency. [1]: 54 After the Government of India Act of 1919, Punjab was turned into a governor's province.
Hindu Colony is an old locality situated in the Dadar area of Mumbai, The locality falls in between Dadar and Matunga on the east side of the Central Railway Line . Traditionally, the area had been a locality of Maharashtrians, Catholics, Jews and Gujaratis, though Maharashtrians are the highest by numbers.
[1] [2] The search for the wealth and prosperity of India led to the colonisation of the Americas after Christopher Columbus went to the Americas in 1492. Only a few years later, near the end of the 15th century, Portuguese sailor Vasco da Gama became the first European to re-establish direct trade links with India by being the first to arrive ...
A princely state (also called native state or Indian state) was a nominally sovereign [1] entity of British India that was not directly governed by the Indian Government, but rather by a ruler under a form of indirect rule, [2] subject to a subsidiary alliance and the suzerainty or paramountcy of the Crown of India.
The early modern period of Indian history is dated from 1526 to 1858, corresponding to the rise and fall of the Mughal Empire, which inherited from the Timurid Renaissance. During this age India's economy expanded, relative peace was maintained and arts were patronised.
By 1773, the Company obtained the Nizāmat of Bengal (the "exercise of criminal jurisdiction") and thereby full sovereignty of the expanded Bengal Presidency. [15] During the period, 1773 to 1785, very little changed; the only exceptions were the addition of the dominions of the Raja of Banares to the western boundary of the Bengal Presidency ...
The Colonisation Bill was passed in 1906. The Punjab Land Alienation Act, 1900 had already caused discontent among the elite urban classes, and the Colonisation Bill provided for the transfer of property of a person after he died the government if he had no heirs.
Roy, Tirthankar (Summer 2002), "Economic History and Modern India: Redefining the Link", The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 16 (3): 109– 130, doi: 10.1257/089533002760278749, JSTOR 3216953; Roy, Tirthankar (2006), The Economic History of India 1857–1947, Second Edition, New Delhi: Oxford University Press.