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August 1938, Waziristan. Razani Military Camp. Taken from the Razmak side. In 1919–1920, the British had fought a campaign against the Wazir tribes. Minor skirmishes had continued into 1921, but after the establishment of a permanent garrison at Razmak there had been a period of relative peace in the region. [5]
The British Raj (/ r ɑː dʒ / RAHJ; from Hindustani rāj, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') [10] was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent, [11] lasting from 1858 to 1947. [12] It is also called Crown rule in India , [ 13 ] or Direct rule in India . [ 14 ]
This is true to life, as the Gordon Highlanders were very active on the North-West Frontier during the British Raj, and were, for a time, garrisoned at Fort Jamrud at the mouth of the Khyber Pass. Portions of the film shot in India were filmed in Chitral [ 2 ] and the North-West Frontier, and there are scenes very reminiscent of the Khyber Pass.
Dalpat Singh, son of Thakur Hari Singh Shekhawat, was a British Indian officer, known as the "Hero of Haifa" for his actions in the Battle of Haifa during World War I. [100] Hanut Singh, British Indian officer, son of Pratap Singh of Idar, served in World War I. [101] Thakur Mahadeo Singh, British Indian officer who served in World War II. [102 ...
The following 36 pages use this file: Agencies of British India; Bombay Presidency; British Raj; British rule in Burma; British rule in Portuguese India
Salt Satyagraha (1930): Rajah participated in the campaign and created the People’s Battalion of Bombay, [2] aiming to non-violently take over British government institutions. [3] He was tried for sedition and sentenced to imprisonment [5] at Yerawada Jail, where he interacted with Mahatma Gandhi, who helped secure his release in 1932. [6]
The Ghadar Mutiny was a plan to initiate a pan-Indian mutiny in the British Indian Army in February 1915 to end the British Raj in India. The plot originated at the onset of World War I , between the Ghadar Party in the United States, the Berlin Committee in Germany, the Indian revolutionary underground in British India and the German Foreign ...
The British Raj was the period of British Parliament rule on the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947, for around 89 years of British occupation. The system of governance was instituted in 1858 when the rule of the East India Company was transferred to the Crown in the person of Queen Victoria .