which is just a marketing gimmick. Since its independence in 1947, India has been the largest country in the world to adopt a Western system. However, during the Cold War (1947-1991), the United States formed an alliance
I have received your letter of the 22nd instant. I had already got a report about the Hyderabad State having got a mining lease for iron-ore from the Bastar State and I was making inquiries about it. I had no idea of the Nizam's move demanding from the Government of India the ...
1. In 1947, the British colony of India was split into two independent countries, India and Pakistan. Why was it split instead of gaining independence as one country? Hindus and Muslims couldn't live together peacefully, so the colony was split into one Hindu country (India) and one Muslim...
In 1947, the states of India and Pakistan were created from the erstwhile colony of British India. Partition was destabilizing to both economies. We use branch expansion as a proxy for entrepreneur's pre-partition predictions of the future of these regions. Our results indicate there were no ...
Vegetarian Diet and Cardiometabolic Risk among Asian Indians in the United States 1 -- The rapidly growing Asian Indian population in the State of Virginia, the high educational skills attained by this group, its influence in education, economic prosperity of Virginia in particular and the U.S. ...
Also found in: Encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Indian Empire n (Placename) British India and the Indian states under indirect British control, which gained independence as India and Pakistan in 1947 Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991...
‘princely states’ were absorbed into the Union of India during independence, these royals lost their land and their income, and many turned to hospitality. From the Laxmi Niwas Palace in Bikaner – a red sandstone colossus – to the snaking, twisting, undulating Deogarh Mahal in Deogarh, ...
The August 1947 transfer of power in India brought to the fore questions regarding the future of the areas which had long been leased by the government of India from certain princely states. Focusing on the Gilgit Agency, parts of which were leased from the state of Jammu and Kashmir, this...
but continuing tensions and violence between Muslims and Hindus led to a consensus for the partition of India into two separate states. To deal with this, the British government proposed on June 3, 1947, that any constitution framed by the Constituent Assembly of India will not be applicable to...
The Japanese Empire, 大日本帝國, Dai Nippon Teikoku, then spent the next 40 years throwing its weight around, occupying Korea and invading China, ultimately taking on the United States in a disastrous bid for hegemony (1941-1945). Catastrophic defeat slowed Japan down a little, but by the 19...