The National Government and Parliament along with civilian refugees and loyalist remnants of the Civil Service and British Army were then evacuated to Canada and other Dominions by what remained of the Royal Navy and the White Star Line. Contents 1 Background 2 Red Summer 2.1 Bombing of Free...
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...
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 ...
Indian princes volunteered their men, money, and personal service, while leaders of the Congress Party—from Tilak, who had just been released from Mandalay and had wired the king-emperor vowing his patriotic support, to Gandhi, who toured Indian villages urging peasants to join the British army...