Far more ceremonious than the inauguration of a President of the U. S. was the arrival in Bombay last week of the new Viceroy of India, the tall (6 ft. 3 in.), young (49), scholarly Scottish lord, ...

Governor-General of India. Viceroy of India. Time Period. 1773–1858. 1858–1947. First Office Holder. Warren Hastings. Lord Canning. Established By. Regulating Act of 1773. Government of India ...

“Viceroy’s House” is a bit like “Downton Abbey,” only set in Delhi, against the backdrop of India’s independence from English colonial rule. The most obvious similarity is that Hugh ...

"Viceroy's House" works mainly as a historical refresher on the 70th anniversary of Indian independence; as drama it's a reminder that truth is sometimes more affecting than fiction.

The job of ruling in India seven times as many subjects of the King-Emperor as live in the British Isles is likely to be tough during the weeks to come for that tall, scholarly Scottish banker, ...

“Viceroy’s House,” which largely succeeds in its attempt to present a comprehensive, yet efficient look at the 1947 partitioning of the British Indian Empire, proves a far more absorbing and ...

The haunting effect of partition is illuminated on the big screen in director Gurinder Chadha's Viceroy's House.. Set in 1947 as Britain ended its colonial rule of India and separated the country ...

In the movie “Viceroy’s House,” director Gurinder Chadha delivers a deeply personal story of the lives shattered as a result of the partition of India and Pakistan when British rule ended in ...

Viceroy’s House seeks to personalize the grand sweep of history by interweaving the high-level backstage horse-trading of British India’s last imperial ruler, Lord Louis Mountbatten (Hugh ...