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1 day ago · Company rule in India (sometimes Company Raj, [6] from Hindi rāj, lit. ' rule ' [7]) was the rule of the British East India Company on the Indian subcontinent.This is variously taken to have commenced in 1757, after the Battle of Plassey, when the Nawab of Bengal Siraj ud-Daulah was defeated and replaced with Mir Jafar, who had the support of the East India Company; [8] or in 1765, when the ...
A group of about 1,000 Polish children departed for India in 1942 from Siberia, where, lost and orphaned amid death and destruction caused by WWII, they had been shifted after the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland. The children were welcomed by their benefactor, the Jam Sahib, but only after a tortuous journey.
1 day ago · The children were welcomed by their benefactor, the Jam Sahib, but only after a tortuous journey. The ships carrying Polish refugees from the former Soviet Union, including a large number of children aged two through 17, were denied entry when they called on ports while sailing through Iran to Bombay (Mumbai), then under British colonial rule.
17 hours ago · Imperial Bank of India was the result of an amalgamation of three Presidency Banks of colonial India: The Bank of Bengal, the Bank of Bombay and the Bank of Madras in 1921.
1 day ago · e. The Glorious Revolution[ a] is sequence of events that led to the deposition of James II and VII in November 1688, who was replaced by his daughter Mary II and her Dutch husband, William III of Orange, who was also his nephew. The two ruled as joint monarchs of England, Scotland, and Ireland until Mary's death in 1694.
8 hours ago · The children were welcomed by their benefactor, the Jam Sahib, but only after a tortuous journey. The ships carrying Polish refugees from the former Soviet Union, including a large number of children, were denied entry when they called on ports while sailing through Iran to Bombay (Mumbai), then under British colonial rule.
23 minutes ago · According to many scholars, such as Eleanor Zelliot and Arun P. Mukherjee, Ambedkar’s time at Columbia University studying under Dewey enabled him to gain a pragmatic approach to education. One of the most quoted and esteemed books in Ambedkar’s library is the heavily annotated Democracy and Education.
