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May 28, 2019 · Narrative of the Visit to India of Their Majesties King George V and Queen Mary and of the Coronation Durbar held at Delhi 12th December, 1911 by JW Fortescue. Scenes from a royal visit, complete with elaborate hats, waving crowds and a fake Gateway of India.
- Urbs Prima In Indis: The Rise and Rise of The Bombay Presidency
Its sole purpose was to take public grievances to the...
- City of Stars
We go back in time to visit the sleepy port town at the...
- Plan of The Attack on Delhi
Various clusters of directional lines with coordinates mark...
- Urbs Prima In Indis: The Rise and Rise of The Bombay Presidency
The presidencies in British India were provinces of that region under the direct control and supervision of, initially, the East India Company and, after 1857, the British government. The three key presidencies in India were the Madras Presidency, the Bengal Presidency, and the Bombay Presidency.
e. The Bombay Presidency or Bombay Province, also called Bombay and Sind (1843–1936), was an administrative subdivision (province) of British India and later the Dominion of India, with its capital in the city that came up over the seven islands of Bombay. The first mainland territory was acquired in the Konkan region with the Treaty of Bassein.
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Jul 10, 2014 · Ten Cities That Made an Empire. Tristram Hunt. Allen Lane, 514pp, £25. “And where will you fetch it from, all you Big Steamers,” asked Kipling in 1911, in a piece of Edwardian doggerel written for a children’s history of England, “And where shall I write you when you are away?” “We fetch it from Melbourne, Quebec, and Vancouver ...
Their Imperial Majesties in Bombay: With King George V, Queen Mary.
Thinking about the history of early Bombay offers methodological perspective on the larger project of studying global cities in the early modern period. Bombay first began its life on the outskirts of various regional and global imperial systems, before becoming a vulnerable imperial space with global possibilities.
- Margaret R. Hunt, Philip J. Stern
- 2021
Mounting political unrest prompted the first visit to South Asia of the Prince and Princess of Wales (the future King George V and Queen Mary). Their tour lasted from November 1905 to March 1906 (fig. 36) and was (indeed still is) the most extensive and far-reaching royal visit ever undertaken. [6] Facing opposition at home and in India, Curzon ...
