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Other flammable news included a February remark from a spokesperson who said that “Kensington Palace would only be providing updates when something was significant”; and the British Army this month claiming Kate would be attending its Trooping the Colour event in June, only to rescind the announc...
There was a story going around in the New Year that the peasants whose houses the prisoners occupied had been promised them back before planting season; and for once events seemed to bear out the rumour. At the start of February the journalists and diplomats were transferred to a house in a...
The Indian army was also extensively reorganized. Another significant result of the mutiny was the beginning of the policy of consultation with Indians. The Legislative Council of 1853 had contained only Europeans and had arrogantly behaved as if it were a full-fledged parliament. It was widely ...
Usually, however, it provided about half of British India’s gross annual revenue, or roughly the money needed to support the army. The second most lucrative source of revenue at that time was the government’s continued monopoly over the flourishing opium trade to China; the third was the ...