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Neelam Gill is the first British Indian model to feature as a high fashion model. [91] Supriya Lele is a British Indian fashion designer who blends her heritage into her work. [92] Priya Ahluwalia is a British designer of Nigerian and Indian descent and the founder of menswear brand Ahluwalia and was given the Queen Elizabeth II Award for ...
As British women began arriving in India in large numbers around the early to mid-19th century, mostly as family members of officers and soldiers, British men became less likely to marry Indian women. Intermarriage declined after the events of the Rebellion of 1857, [27] after which several anti-miscegenation laws were implemented.
Dean Mahomed (1759–1851), British Indian traveller and writer originally from Patna in modern-day Bihar [1]; Elizabeth Sharaf un-Nisa (1758–1822), Mughal noble married into the aristocratic Ducarel family.
Mirabehn was born into a well connected British family in 1892. Her father, Sir Edmond Slade. was an officer in the Royal Navy who was posted in Mirabehn's early years as the Commander-in-Chief of the East Indies Squadron, later becoming director of the Naval Intelligence Division. [1]
The status of women in India has been subject to many great changes over the past few millennia. With a decline in their status from the ancient to medieval times ...
The Indian independence movement was a series of events aimed at ending the British rule in India, which lasted till 1947. Women played a significant and prominent role in the Indian independence movement. The participation of women in the movement started as early as the eighteenth century.
Annie Besant (née Wood; 1 October 1847 – 20 September 1933) was a British socialist, theosophist, freemason, women's rights and Home Rule activist, educationist and campaigner for Indian nationalism.
Sindhu was born in New Delhi, India, the daughter of a civil servant father and a teacher mother. [5]She has lived in Delhi, Lucknow, and the Philippines.She studied at the University of Delhi, the University of Oxford, the University of Chicago, and McGill University, [5] [6] and worked in banking as a "high-flying bonds tradeswoman" in London.