• a Franco-Persian alliance (artist's impression pictured) was concluded by Napoleon in 1807 as a step to help him accomplish his objective of attacking British India?
• Tsarong Dzasa was regarded by officials in British India as "the most powerful friend of His Majesty's Government in Tibet"?
• a brutal rape of a Bengali child by her 35-year-old husband served as a catalyst for increasing the age of consummation to 12 in British India?
• in his later years, Indian journalist C. Karunakara Menon was detested by the extremists of the Indian independence movement as well as the Government of British India?
• the Mahé River in India was nicknamed the "English Channel" because it separated British-ruled Thalassery from French-ruled Mahé?
• the Bangladesh Police inherits much of its structure from the police of British India and contributes to U.N. peace-keeping missions?
• SS Rajputana, a P&O liner traveling between Plymouth, England and Lahore, British India, was converted into a cruiser and eventually sunk by a German U-boat west of Iceland?
• Rasik Krishna Mallick, a student at Hindu College, Kolkata, a leading Derozian and journalist, shocked a court in British India in the 1820s when he stated that he did not believe in the sacredness of the Ganges?
• Sir Abdur Rahim KCSI was President of the Central Legislative Assembly of India for ten years?
• Sankey Tank in Bangalore is named after Sir Richard Hieram Sankey, an officer in the Royal (Madras) Engineers in British India?
• Jamshedji Framji Madan (pictured) was a pioneer of Indian cinema, whose film production company Madan Theatres Limited once controlled half of British India's box office?
• Mohammad Usman was the first Indian to act as the Governor of Madras Presidency in British India?
• P. Munuswamy Naidu, senior leader of the Justice Party in Madras Presidency, British India, supported the inclusion of Brahmins in the party?
• Motilal Sheel, a Bengali merchant in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in British India in the early 19th century, donated the land on which the Calcutta Medical College was built in 1835?
• novelist Charles Dickens received news of the death in India of his son Walter Landor Dickens on his own birthday on February 7, 1864?

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British Raj

• Mahesh Rangarajan is a researcher, author and historian who analysed present-day conservation conflicts in India and found their roots in India's colonial past?
• Maulana Mehmud Hasan organised an armed rebellion against the British Raj with Turkish support but was arrested just before his return to India?
• Qaisar Bagh of Wajid Ali Shah, the last Nawab of Awadh, was ordered demolished by the British Raj after the Indian Rebellion of 1857, but his queens' residence is still standing in Lucknow today?
• Surendranath Banerjea founded the Indian National Association, the first Indian political organization in British-ruled 19th-century India?
• Webb Miller, whose reporting of the Salt Satyagraha raid on the Dharasana Salt Works was credited for helping turn world opinion against British colonial rule in India, was kidnapped by Morton Salt co-founder Mark Morton?
• as Chief Herald of India, Osmond Barnes (pictured) proclaimed Queen Victoria Empress of India at Delhi in 1877?
• the Tamil film Thyagabhoomi is the only Indian film banned by the British Raj for propagating the cause of India's freedom struggle?
• the Berlin Committee was formed during World War I by Indian nationalists to foment a revolution against the British Raj?
• the Gujarat Vidyapith was founded in 1920 by Mahatma Gandhi as a means to establish an education system for all Indians free of British rule?
• the Kashi Vidyapeeth university in Varanasi was founded on Mahatma Gandhi's principle of Indian self-reliance through the boycott of colonial institutions?