Annals of the Madras Presidency : being a history of the presidency : compiled from official records by J. Talboys Wheeler Low Price Publications, 1990 set... JT Wheeler - Low Price Publications 被引量: 1发表: 1990年 Penang: the Fourth Presidency of India 1805–1830 Vol. 1: Ships, Men ...
In 1951 Rajagopalachari resigned from Nehru’s cabinet after differences between the two leaders became pronounced. From 1952 to 1954 he was again chief minister of Madras, having been theconsensuscandidate in the state assembly elections of 1952. The Congress Party had been reduced to a minority...
19, 1860, Dalhousie Castle) was a British governor-general of India from 1847 to 1856, who is accounted the creator both of the map of modern India, through his conquests and annexations of independent provinces, and of the centralized Indian state. So radical were Dalhousie’s changes and ...
Ellenborough then pursued his plans to promote trade by ending tolls and duties throughout Sindh and Bahawalpur (both now in Pakistan), the North-Western Provinces, Madras (now Chennai), and Bombay (Mumbai). But a war with Gwalior in December 1843, designed to keep its large army out of ...
Governor-general of India He refused reappointment to the governorship of Madras in 1819, waiting to attain his real ambition—the appointment as governor-general of Bengal, which came in 1827. Bentinck’s immediate instructions were to rescue India from its financial difficulties; at this time ...
Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd earl of Lytton, British governor of Bengal (1922–27) and chairman of the League of Nations mission to Manchuria, which produced the so-called Lytton Report (1932), condemning Japan’s aggression there. His mission was widely pr