This was the first of several famines to hit India during British rule throughout the 1700s and 1800s. From 1757, the East India Company began to control the government, economy and education ...

Dalhousie was established in 1854 by the British Empire as a summer retreat, named after Lord Dalhousie, the Governor-General of India. The remnants of its colonial past are still visible in its ...

India, Jan. 13 -- Award-winning photographer Bijoy Chowdhury's 2025 calendar is an ode to the crowning glory of Kolkata's British heritage ... Chowdhury Named after Lord Dalhousie, the then ...

As the argument ran, the British remained in India only because Indians kept them there, and with full nonparticipation, colonial rule would collapse in a year. Gandhi’s call to arms electrified ...