(Placename) the 17 provinces of India formerly governed by the British under the British sovereign: ceased to exist in 1947 when the independent states of India and Pakistan were created Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994...
In colonial India, prostitution was predominantly perceived as an organised trade requiring regulation driven by concerns for the British soldiers' well-being. The Cantonment Act of 1864 and the Contagious Diseases Act of 1868 exemplified this approach, treating sex workers as moral transgressors and ...
the 17 provinces of India formerly governed by the British under the British sovereign: ceased to exist in 1947 when the independent states of India and Pakistan were created Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005 ...
In 1907 the former viceroy, Lord Curzon, recently returned from India, threw his weight behind a campaign to erect a memorial to“the Victor of [the battle of] Plassey”. His successor, Lord Minto, already dealing with the serious unrest caused by Curzon’s partition of Bengal, was horrifie...
It began as a mutiny of sepoys of the East India Company’s army in the cantonment of the town of Meerut and soon escalated into other mutinies and civilian rebellions. It led to the dissolution of the East India Company in 1858. India was thereafter directly governed by the Crown as the...
Their new garrison cantonment sat in the valley, weakly fortified and surrounded by old forts that had neither been occupied nor destroyed. It measured only 1,000 by 600 yards and sat outside the city walls.[27] On November 2, 1841, the simmering insurgency erupted in Kabul as Alexander ...
The British troops in the city were greatly outnumbered and unable to defend themselves properly, as the cantonment was encircled. A truce was arranged in late November, and it seems the Afghans simply wanted the British to leave the country. But tensions escalated when the son of Dost Mohamme...
was located in the Cantonment, Delhi in 1946/7 and a Company was always in residence in the Red Fort in Delhi. Lt.Col Dunlop was Commanding Officer at this time with Maj. Du Sautoy as 2 i/c. I left in July/Aug 1947 on discharge to Deolali Transit Camp first, South of the then ...
HARRISON W M Sister QAIMNS 03/04/1920 India, Trimulgherry Cantonment Cemetery, Plot M. Grave 1104. HARRISON Winnie Alice Elizabeth Sister QAIMNS 24/01/1944 United Kingdom, Brookwood 1939-1945 Memorial, Panel 22. Column 2. HARVEY Grace Wesslink Sister QAIMNS 47 12/02/1944 United Kingdom...
They need no lectures on duty: "…eighty per cent of the boys had been born abroad—in camp, cantonment, or upon the high seas; or that seventy-five per cent were sons of officers in one or other of the services—Willoughbys, Paulets, De Castros, Maynes, Randalls, after their kind...