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By the mid-19th century, there were around 40,000 British soldiers, but fewer than 2,000 British officials present in India but by then the Suez Canal was opened and many British women came to India in quick transit. [22] Before the British Raj, the Company, with some reluctance, endorsed a policy of local marriage for its soldiers.
Annie Besant (1 October 1847 – 20 September 1933) was a British born socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist and campaigner for Indian nationalism. [16] She was an ardent supporter of the Indian self-rule and became the first female president of the Indian National Congress in 1917. [ 17 ]
Homai Vyarawalla (9 December 1913 – 15 January 2012), commonly known by her pseudonym Dalda 13, was India's first woman photojournalist. [1] [2] She began her career in 1938 working for the Bombay Chronicle, capturing images of daily life in the city. Vyarawalla worked for the British Information Services from the 1940s until 1970 when she ...
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 ...
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]
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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.
Kadambini was born in Bengali Kayastha family [2] as Kadambini Basu who was the daughter of Brahmo reformer Braja Kishore Basu. She was born on 18 July 1861 [3] at Bhagalpur, Bengal Presidency (modern day Bihar) in British India, raised in Barisal.