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Chaman Lal - First British Indian Lord Mayor of Europe's largest council, Birmingham City Council. [3] [4] Ram Parkash Lakha - Former Lord Mayor of Coventry. [5] Mohinder Kaur Midha - Former Mayor of the London Borough of Ealing. [6] Bishan Dass - Elected as first British Asian Lord Mayor of Wolverhampton in 1986. [7]
It was announced that Myspace lost 12 years worth of content in a server migration gone wrong. So that meant any songs, photos and videos uploaded to the site between 2003-2015 were straight up ...
Annie Besant (1 October 1847 – 20 September 1933) was a British born socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist and campaigner for Indian nationalism. [16] She was an ardent supporter of the Indian self-rule and became the first female president of the Indian National Congress in 1917. [ 17 ]
As British women began arriving in India in large numbers around the early to mid-19th century, mostly as family members of officers and soldiers, British men became less likely to marry Indian women. Intermarriage declined after the events of the Rebellion of 1857, [27] after which several anti-miscegenation laws were implemented.
Eva Cox (born 1938) – sociologist and feminist active in politics and social services, member of Women's Electoral Lobby, social commentator on women in power and at work, and social justice Zelda D'Aprano (1928–2018) – trade unionist, feminist, in 1969 chained herself to doors of Commonwealth Building over equal pay
Margaret Davidson (1871–1964) – member of Women's Patriotic Association, named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her work with the Red Cross Society and the Scouting and Girl Guides in New South Wales; Margaret Iris Duley (1894–1968) – considered Newfoundland's first novelist, member of Women's Patriotic Association
Chief Election Commissioner of India Subhas Chandra Bose: 1920 1921 1921(Resignation) 4th Y. N. Sukthankar (later CIE) 1921 Second Cabinet Secretary of India: Sudhansu Kumar Das: 1921 Acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India: K. P. S. Menon: 1922 1st First Foreign Secretary (India) Nilakanta Mahadeva Iyer (later CIE) 1922 Binay Ranjan ...
A former British Indian Army officer, he joined the Quit India Movement in 1942. Shivaram Rajguru: A revolutionary, he was an HSRA member and assassinated a British police officer in the Indian Imperial Police. Shyamji Krishna Varma: A nationalist, he founded the Indian Home Rule Society, India House and The Indian Sociologist in London. Sri ...