...he became a member of the [[British Indian Association, The|british indian association]] (est 1851), a society of Bengal landholders.
...y, but during the [[Sepoy Revolt, 1857|sepoy revolt]] (1857) supported the British. During the [[Indigo Resistance Movement|indigo resistance movement]] in 18
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...tagore]] as its President and Secretary respectively. Other members of the Association included Ramgopal Ghosh, [[Mitra, Peary Chand|peary chand mitra]] and Krish
...to the East India Company's charter' fallen due to be renewed in 1853. The Association informed parliament that Indians were not benefited by their connection wit
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...r to Allopathy as a course of treatment. For this he was ostracised by the British doctors of Calcutta. He lost his practice for a while but gradually picked
...ho would dedicate themselves for national reconstruction. Not only was the British Government indifferent to this effort, a section of his own countrymen also
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...ll in Rangpur. He was a member of the executive committee, Indian Football Association from 1944 to till his death. He introduced 'Bau Mela' (fair to wives) for w
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...890. After his retirement in 1890 he joined the [[Indian National Congress|indian national congress]].
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...n, representing solely the interests of the landed aristocracy, the Bengal British India Society was an organisation dominated by a section of the Bengal inte
...ted aims and objectives were, to foster good citizenry qualities among the Indian populace, create public awareness about the state of governance and about t
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...ave unrestricted business opportunities in India. He was involved with the Indian Congress and presided over the reception committee at its second session in
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'''Central National Muhamedan Association''' was a political organisation founded by [[Ali, Syed Ameer|syed ameer al
...inculcate a sense of loyalty among Muslims to remove the suspicion of the British Government towards them. He cherished cordial relations with other communit
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...ian association]] and presided over by Bose himself, the Indian Industrial Association was formed. Pramathanath became its first honorary secretary.
...ar of Teota (Manikganj), and Trilokyanath Mukhopadhyay, an official of the Indian Museum and author of several monographs on indigenous crafts of Bengal. Sir
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...ected vice-president of the association in 1869 and president in 1873. The association soon became a platform to generate public opinion against oppressive measur
...wn Hall on 6 April 1857 on the laws relating to the trial of Englishmen by Indian judges. He found no reason for making discrimination of jurisdiction on rac
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...associations and national movements for independence. Prior to the Indian Association Sisir Kumar Ghosh along with Sambhu Charan Mukherjee founded 'The India Lea
...ical unity among the educated middle class in India. The very name 'Indian Association' implied that national movement was assuming an all India character in outl
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...re. In 1858 he joined the [[British Indian Association, The|british indian association]] as an assistant secretary He became its secretary in 1879. He was efficie
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...of the district board of Dacca, the British Indian Association, the Indian Association, etc.
...Sankar Ray Chaudhuri was also one of the founders of the Indian Industrial Association. Among other things, its members experimented with indigenous raw materials
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...prominent part in awakening economic and political nationalism. It was his association with this magazine that established his fame as a journalist. He started th
Sambhu Chandra was assistant secretary (1861-1863) to the Taluqdars' Association at Lucknow and successively became political adviser, dewan and secretary t
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'''Langley, George Harry''' (1881-1951) educationist. A British national George Harry Langley was born on 14 July 1881 in London. He obtain
George Harry Langley joined the Indian Education Service in 1913 and was assigned to work as Professor of Philosop
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...e emergence of some fundamental characteristics of the modern chambers and association's movement, consolidating and engineering new developments in later years.
...mmerce were the two most important chambers in Bangladesh territory during British rule. These two chambers were amalgamated in 1958 under the company act 191
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...f Calcutta|university of calcutta]], he went to England to compete for the Indian Civil Service. Though he cleared the examination in 1869, trouble occurred
...o began to deliver public speeches in and outside Calcutta on topics like 'Indian unity', 'life and thought of Mazzini'; and 'the history of Shivaji and the
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...the establishment of the [[British Indian Association, The|british indian association]] in 1851 Radhakanta Deb was elected its President, a position he held till
...advocated social and religious reforms. Although a loyal supporter of the British Government, Radhakanta was opposed to any interference by the Government in
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...nd the Brahma Samaj gave him the title of 'Maharshi' for having preventing Indian youths from coming under the influence of [[Christianity|christianity]]. He
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...biggest zamindaris of Bengal which sprang up under the impact of the early British colonial rule. The founder of the Kasimbazar raj was Krishnakanta Nandi of
...ortant position in the British Indian Association, the Bengal Landholders' Association, and the Bengal National Chamber of Commerce, etc. He died in 1929. The las
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...sting of seven members of Parliament from both sides of the aisle to study Indian problem in India and report on constitutional reforms in India. It is also
...mmission met with wide-scale hostility as soon as it landed in Bombay. The Indian opposition to the commission was mitigated partially as Indians were invite
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...He was a founding member of the [[British Indian Association, The|british indian society]] (1843). He was a major contributor to the ''[[Bengal Spectator|be
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...f the Viceroy of India. He was commissioned as a lieutenant in the British Indian Army in 1926. Dinajpur zamindari was abolished under the [[East Bengal Stat
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...m. The civil services were practically a monopoly for the white. The Anglo-Indian community controlled trade, commerce and industries. Capitalist commercial
...onal revolution. The government took particular note of patriotic and anti-British dramas staged at the annual conferences of the [[Hindu Mela|hindu mela]]. R
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...nial mobilization. The Ilbert Bill has a background. The administration of British India was an all-white affair until the Civil Service Act of 1861, under wh
...ll thus divided the Indian public opinion sharply into two blocs–the Indian bloc which supported the Bill enthusiastically, and the European bloc which
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...mpaign of indigo workers’ rights in Bihar in 1916. In 1917, Women’s Indian Association was formed on the issue of women’s suffrage movement headed by Anne Besan
...f the two Indian National Congress delegates attending at the East African Indian Congress in January 1924. In 1925, she was elected as president at the annu
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...publicised her experiences, striving to achieve her interpretation of what Indian reformers desired.
...sen]][[Sen, Keshab Chandra|'s]] wish, she established the National Indian Association in England in 1870.
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...g a loyal zamindar he donated huge amount of money for the constriction of British monuments in India. For example, he gave Rs. 25,000 for Victoria Memorial o
...ciations including the British Indian association, the Bengal Land Holders Association, the Bengal Music Society, the Bengal Literature Council, the Rangpur Liter
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...The police raided his house and imprisoned him several times for his anti-British activities.
...1939 he presided over the Conference of the All-Bengal and Assam Lawyers' Association held at Khulna. Datta was the President of the Tippera District Relief, Res
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...vernment announcement of 31 October 1929 that the natural objective of the Indian constitutional progress was the attainment of Dominion Status, the issue of
The British Prime Minister appointed the Indian Franchise Committee, also known as Lothian Committee, at the end of 1931 to
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...to demonstrate that Indian Muslims were not obliged to revolt against the British because they enjoyed religious freedom in India. He had considerable influe
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...tional Mahammadan Association and the Vice-President of the British-Indian Association. Abdul Halim was knighted in 1935.
...ious statutory committees, such as Calcutta Export Advisory Committee, the Indian Central Jute Committee, Railway Advisory Committee (1927-32), Railway Stand
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...was made the capital of the new province of Eastern Bengal and Assam. The British civilians, who came to govern the new province, felt the need of a social c
...ce, Dhaka. The club was granted legal status on 14 September1911 under the Indian Companies Act of 1882.
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...of the people under the British administration. Due to his 'disloyalty' to British rule he eventually lost his job in 1858.
...Hare Memorial Society, [[Bethune Society|bethune society]], Social Science Association and Hindu Theosophical Society. [Sirajul Islam]
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...ymbols. Nabagopal Mitra's idea of fighting the cultural colonialism of the British by reviving the best of ancient Hindu civilisation was firmly supported by
...wn to a new secular organisation[[British Indian Association, The|, indian association]], initiated by [[Banerjea, Surendranath|surendranth banerjea]] and [[Anand
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...mic rights of women. In December 1923, she established 'Dipali Sangha', an association for women, with the main objective of enhancing women's education. She foun
...egion. She also established an institution known as 'Gana Shiksa Parisad' (Association for Mass Education) for spreading female education at a mass level.
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...ta was expelled from Bakura College because of his involvement in the anti-British activities. He then got admitted in Kolkata City College. He passed ISC exa
...of Somen Chanda. As a learned man he earned great honour by the members of association.
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...ward Bloc|forward bloc]], Commander-in-Chief of the [[Indian National Army|indian national army]] (INA). Subhas Chandra Bose was the ninth among fourteen chi
...ly afterwards he changed his mind. He resigned from the Service and joined Indian nationalist politics under the able leadership of [[Das, Chitta Ranjan|chit
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...nterest among other philologists of the contemporary world in the study of Indian languages. In his social intercourse with the people of Bengal Long noticed
As a Missionary, Reverend Long realised that the actions of the British [[Indigo Planters|indigo planters]] would impede the progress of proselytis
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...ar datta]] and Abdul Malek, all of whom had records of involvement in anti-British activities. Kamini Kumar Dutta, a leftist and a prominent lawyer at the Com
...miserably the elitist candidates put up by the [[Indian National Congress|indian national congress]], [[Muslim League|muslim league]] and [[Krishak Praja Pa
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...e, sided with the Axis Powers during the Second World war (1939-1945). The Indian National Army (INA) is also called 'Azad Hind Fauz'.
...n Singh hesitated but ultimately agreed. Fujihara handed over about 40,000 Indian soldiers, who had surrendered to him, to Mohan Singh. It was actually the f
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In the 19th century the Indian Muslims were a fallen people bereft of their empire and bewildered by the s
...Ali's [[Central National Muhamedan Association|central national muhamedan association]] were regularly reported in Abdul Hamid's paper, the [[Mohammedan Literary
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...capital invested in railway construction. This worked as an incentive for British capital to steadily flow to India for building railways.
...y and the Great Indian Peninsular Company, signed contract with the [[East Indian Railway|east india company]] for construction of experimental lines from Ho
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...iples of a Muslim pir. Gnanendramohan went to England and became the first Indian to become a barrister.
...ish Indian Association, The|british indian association]]. He was the first Indian to become a member of the Royal Photographic Society. Ramanath Tagore (d. 1
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...onal Congress|indian national congress]]. As their full family had an anti-British mindset, he was involved in underground politics and he had to take many ps
...ts uprising during his student life. After the formation of Sylhet unit of Indian Communist Party in 1936, Ajoy became the General Secretary of Surma Valley
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...accepted the idea of such an organisation as the 'loyal opposition' to the British Raj. Barrister WC Banerjee was chosen as the first president of the INC's i
...1886. The INC was then not a full-fledged political party, rather a loose association of influential men in provincial politics trying to build up a national pla
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...ours were heaped upon him, an Indian, by an institution that was very much British at the time. Very fittingly it was he who wrote the Asiatic Society's cente
...s'', ''The statesman'', The Phoenix, The Citizen, The Friend of India, The Indian Field'' and ''The [[Hindu Patriot|hindu patriot]]''. He was the editor of '
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...r grievances. He himself took some initiative in this regard. Finally, the British government formed the Indigo Commission in 1860 due to his initiative with
...ments in favour of amending the bill through a memorandum submitted to the British government.
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...heatre, this play won the first prize from the all Indian People's Theatre Association Exhibition held in Mumbai in 1953. In 1955 he made his Group-theatre and st
...rik (1958), a film with science fiction themes. It was one of the earliest Indian films to portray an inanimate object, in this case an automobile, as a char
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...ieving that such an association was a necessity for influencing Indian and British public opinion and also government policy the Missionaries established it i
The Calcutta Missionary Conference (CMC) was a forum of the British Protestant Missionary Societies and was dominated by three of them - the Ch
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...ders made the Brahma faith his prime concern in life. He joined the Indian Association in 1876 and was made its joint secretary. In 1879 he came to Kolkata to tea
...90 he joined the indigo cultivators' agitation. He was associated with the Indian National Congress since its birth in 1885 but in 1921 opposed Mahatma Gandh
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...inated by the Lieutenant Governor from amongst the native gentry and Anglo-Indian interests. Making laws and regulations became the principal job of the Coun
...Among them only 49 were Indian members, 35 were members of British Indian Association and 26 were title holders.
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...ims as a downtrodden nation could get more benefit from the loyalty to the British rather than from any opposition to them. He called upon his followers to de
...ational muhamedan association]] (1877), Sir Syed's United Indian Patriotic Association (1888) and many other local anzumans became more active in social regenerat
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...world governing body, Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) was founded in Paris on 21 May 1904. FIFA organises the competition
...gained popularity in Allahabad, Calcutta and Dhaka and the Indian Football Association (IFA) Shield Cup took off in 1893.
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...tellectual emancipation. Rammohun had gained acquaintance with the leading Indian scholars of the day who were associated with the [[Fort William College|for
...t influential circle of friends, both Indian and European. Among his close Indian friends were [[Tagore, Prince Dwarkanath|dwarkanath tagore]] and Prasanna K
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'''Ali, Syed Ameer''' (1849-1928)''' '''lawyer, spokesman on Indian Muslim concerns, and writer on Islamic history and society, was born on 6 A
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...victorious army following the English civil war, and the execution of the British king Charles I in 1649. That Commonwealth was dominated from the outset by
...and parliamentary, monarchical and republican, all of whom were once under British colonial rule and spread all over the globe. From Africa to India, from Pac
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The proposal encountered a stiff opposition from an enlightened Indian, [[Roy, Raja Rammohun|rammohun roy]], who submitted a memorial to the Gover
...ve organisations like the [[British Indian Association, The|british indian association]]. The professorship of Hindu Law had to be abolished. In his letters (date
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...entually published. As a result, he was able to attract the attention of a British professor of the [[Presidency College|presidency college]] and through his
...Calcutta Museum and Ram Kamal desired to take them to the Bengal Literary Association. But RP Chanda vehemently opposed their proposal and Kumar SK Ray supported
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...cademic Sabha (1828), [[Brahma Sabha|brahma sabha]] (1829), "Land Holders' Association" (1831), Tattvabodhini Sabha (1842), etc were established in Calcutta. Thes
...y revolt]] of 1857. The other contemporary organisation, The British India Association (1851), also opposed the revolt. After the revolt was over, a message of 'f
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...vaisnava devotion'. His grandfather Ramkamal Sen (1783-1844) was the first Indian secretary of the [[Asiatic Society|asiatic society]], the compiler of the e
...tarianism, from an advocate of nationalism to a champion of ‘providential’ British rule.
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In 1889-94 Jabbar worked as Presidency Magistrate in Calcutta. In 1895 the British government conferred on him the titles of Khan Bahadur and CIE. Later the t
...he second half of the ninteenth century. He was a member of the Mohammedan Association, the first organisation of the Musalmans of India including Bengal. He had
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...porate and register a company without obtaining a royal charter. Under the Indian Act, the supreme courts in the presidency towns of Calcutta, Bombay and Mad
...Between 1908 and 1936, small amendments were made in the Act of 1913. The Indian Companies (Amendment) Act, 1936 introduced important provisions in the Act
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...ively associated with were Association of General Knowledge (1830), Bengal British India Society (1843), David Hare Memorial Society (1844), Race Club (1847),
...ism and Bangla literature. He was a regular contributor to the Englishman, Indian Field, [[Hindu Patriot|hindu patriot]], Friend of India and [[Bengal Specta
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...tially, the Bengali bhadralok had an abiding faith in the bona fide of the British rule. Therefore, joint meetings by Europeans and Indians were quite common
...Indian Association|indian association]] and the [[Indian National Congress|indian national congress]] made use of the Hall on different occasions. In the 189
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...itics took place during the 1906 session of the [[Indian National Congress|indian national congress]] in Calcutta in the wake of the Hindu community’s adve
.... Jinnah became one of the elected members of the Council from Bombay. His association with the [[Muslim League|muslim league]] began in 1911. At its next session
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...jaychand Mahtab of Burdwan (Bardhaman) and the President of Bengal Medical Association Dr. S P Sarbadhikari played the leading role in the constitution of Bengal
...charging their duties. The Turkish forces laid a siege around Kutt and the British forces surrendered to the Turks on 29 April 1916. A sick member of the corp
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...ing classes, such as, rajas, maharajas, nawabs and zamindars as well as by British high officials who held 'nautches' in their private chambers. Professional
...d an institution at Almora in northern India and succeeded in popularising Indian classical dance nationally and internationally.
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...ical Garden, Royal Asiatic Society, Zamindary Panchayet and British Indian Association. His son Rohinikumar Roychowdhuri earned reputation as a novelist and histo
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...1857 was amended in 1860, 1866, 1882, 1887, 1891, 1895, 1900 and 1908. The Indian Companies Act 1913 was actually the amended and reformed version of The Eng
...ociation, general provision for registration of memorandum and articles of association, associations not for profit, and companies limited by guarantee. Part-III
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...handra soon became an expert book keeper. He became an avid reader of both Indian and western literature, the [[Purana|purana]]s and philosophy. At about thi
Girish Chandra's lifelong association with the theatre at its nascent stage greatly helped the development of Ben
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...ith the activities of the Bangiya Sahitya Samiti as well as the Graduates' Association.
...its General President in 1958. He also served as the Director of the Indo-British Historical Society of Madras. In 1968 Datta was awarded the Jadunath Gold M
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After the Mughal period, the British captured this region. Raiyotwari System was introduced in this part of the
...and Revenue Accounts'' and the Home Department brought out ''Statistics of British India'' for 1874-1875 for the judicial and administrative departments subor
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...utionaries like Kanailal Dutta and Motilal Roy. The latter founded here an association named ''Prabartak Sangha'' aiming at the freedom of India, religious devoti
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...yer. He was born on 18 January 1932 at Ghazipur in the United Provinces in British India. His father, Syed Zafar Ahmed, was a business entrepreneur and landow
...kata against the capital punishment meted out by the British rulers to two Indian National Army officers, and was interned. During the Language Movement (195
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...892-1950) One of the earliest tuberculosis researcher and practitioner in British India. Popularly known as Dr KS Ray, Kumud Sankar Ray was a scion of the [[
...[[Sarkar, Nilratan|nilratan sarkar]]. It was out of this movement that the Indian Medical Council, the apex body for medical education in India, was born; Ku
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...programmes to create public opinion in favour of the British monarchy. The British government also created the War Purposes Exhibition Unit and the Central Bu
...ost national PR associations of the world. The Bangladesh Public Relations Association (BPRA), formed in 1979, adopted it in its first national convention in the
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...ance schemes. These companies were of various origins British, Australian, Indian, West Pakistani and local. Ten insurance companies had their head offices i
...blic liability company under the Companies Act. Memorandum and Articles of Association duly approved by the Regulatory Authority would have to be submitted with t
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..., social, political, and economic justice, freedom of thought, expression, association, movement, belief, worship and faith; and civil liberties such as right to
...But in reality there were many restrictions, which had been imposed during British rule, continued later to curtail the civil liberties in Pakistan. Prohibiti
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...huram of the Feni district. His father was a senior officer in the British Indian Postal Service. He spent his youth at his father’s workplace in Sargodha.
...Ahmed started his professional career in journalism. It is noted that his association with writing developed while he was a student at Notre Dame College. He ser
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...al part of the Mughal empire, and later on of the Ahom and finally, of the British empire. The main dynasty ruling in the western part of the former Kamta-Koc
...hatterji, that the Tibeto-Burman branch of the Tibeto-Chinese race came to Indian side of the Himalayas to Nepal and North Bihar-Bengal and Assam and they po
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...ishing library association in each province. In 1925, Great Bengal Library Association was established and in the month of December, library workers and readers g
...ricultural Information Centre (AIC) is now a part of Agricultural Research Association which as earlier known as National Agricultural Library and Documentation C
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...y organisations were extended to Far East, West America, and Germany where Indian revolutionary committees were formed.
...clared war against Germany in April 1917, and the police began to round up Indian revolutionaries in USA as German spies. To escape arrest Roy fled to Mexico
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...t generation saw yet another shift, with many of the cousins being sent to British universities for their first degrees and legal training at the Inns of Cour
...hnique of the blends of Mughal and European architecture. [R Roy] [Roy, R Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata]
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...ommittees. Such a committee of doctors was formed named Bangladesh Medical Association with himself as General Secretary to collect medicine and other essentials
...ompanied by Dr. MA Mobin managed to return to Agartala, the capital of the Indian state of Tippera. At Melaghar in Tippera was the Headquarters of Major Khal
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...rovince in the face of strong opposition of the [[Indian National Congress|indian national congress]].
...From 27 to 30 December 1906 over two thousand learned people including all-Indian Muslim leaders gathered at the nawab's family garden-house in Shahbag. This
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...he saw about a hundred films. He also got acquainted with persons like the British filmmaker, Lindsay Anderson and film specialists Peneloppi Huston and Gavin
...t won the award of the President of India and the prize of the West Bengal Association of Journalists. The same year it won the special jury award for 'the best h
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...ry to propagate Pan-Islamic ideas received a favourable response from some Indian Muslim leaders.
...Committee. At the Nagpur Session (1920) of the [[Indian National Congress|indian national congress]] Gandhi linked the issue of Swaraj (Self-Government) wit
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...towns between 1835 and 1845 to train subordinate medical staff. Till 1860, Indian Medical Service practice largely remained confined within the orbit of cura
...particularly when the troops were on the march. The diseases which killed British soldiers were endemic to the country.
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...to provide manufacturing machines and the engines to power them. The first British professional society of civil engineers was formed in 1818; that for mechan
...ovement and postal communication. About the middle of the colonial period, British engineers undertook the work of surveying and mapping, improvement of road
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...Their assertive presence, however, began to decline from the beginning of British rule. Even now there are Armenians in Dhaka, but the community is insignifi
...profit margin, the Armenians could compete successfully with not only the Indian and other Asian merchants but also with the European East India Companies t
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...Orissa since 1765, was admittedly much too large for a single province of British India. This premier province grew too vast for efficient administration and
...indian national congress]] was destined to become the main platform of the Indian nationalist movement. It exhibited unusual strength and vigour and shifted
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''The colonial period'' Under the British a new class began to emerge. Members of this class came mostly from the lan
...|bhabanicharan bandyopadhyay]] and others were critical of many aspects of British rule, but, at the same time, loyal and even grateful to colonial rule.
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...ad short-wave transmitters. With the outbreak of World War II in 1939, the British government set up six more stations one each at Karachi, Lucknow, Lahore, P
...nstitute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD) and Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA). It is also an associate member of Broadcasting Organisation of the N
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...y in the economy of that time and, upon quick realisation of the fact, the British set up the English Agency House.
Established in 1784, the Bengal Bank was the first British-patronised modern bank in India. Dhaka Bank started to operate as a commerc
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...Manufacture of jute goods was the single largest industry of Bengal under British rule and east Bengal (ie erstwhile East Pakistan) during the quarter centur
...and the price of jute goods drastically declined and the Indian Jute Mills Association (IJMA) reacted by reducing the working time to 40 hours and sealing 15 per
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...ith a capital of A3300,000 ($500,000) was later merged with the Bengal Tea Association of Kolkata.
...ce of some capitalists of West Pakistan and a group of Urdu speaking north Indian Muslims migrating to Pakistan.
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'''Atman''' is a basic concept of Indian religion and philosophy. Both in eastern and western traditions there are t
...stem the individual self (jiva) is considered as a free spirit despite its association with a gross body and a subtle body. The subtle body is made of the senses,
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...ndia. He founded a company in London called the [[East Indian Railway|east indian railway]] in 1844. But it took him a few years to get necessary clearance a
...River|ganges]] and then to [[Dhaka|dhaka]]. The annexation of Burma to the Indian Empire in 1854 made the idea all the more urgent from the military point of
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...reasonable accuracy. Apart from the banians, those natives who helped the British in their endeavours of writing Bangla grammars, translations, missionary bo
...rite 47 tracts, letters and books in English. He also gave evidence in the British Parliament, in English, about colonial India. His contemporary [[Tagore, Pr
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...olescence during World War II, the Pakistan Movement, the partition of the Indian subcontinent, and the language movement of the new state of Pakistan. He gr
...sian Poetry Conference in Bhopal, India. In 1993, at the invitation of the British government, he represented Bangladesh in a literary event in Oldham City. I
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...em at thana level throughout the country. The ‘thanas’ were created by the British colonial rulers mainly as police stations to maintain law and order. A loca
...hairmen as representative members, chairmen of Upazila Central Cooperative Association, three women members, one nominated member and official members. The electe
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...charter acts were to assert the sovereignty of the British Crown over the Indian territories (1813), create structures of provincial governments in India (1
...d the governors of the provinces. It also provided for the creation of the Indian Civil Service (ICS) under the control of the Secretary of State for India.
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...St. Paul's School in different parts of Bengal. But with the advent of the British (Protestant) power in Bengal, the Roman Catholic mission was rather cornere
...ian mission started as an organised movement in Bengal with the arrival of British Protestant missionaries in the last decade of the 18th century. The great E
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...wever, during the first 100 odd years of British Raj, up to the 1870s, the British colonial masters had been the main adversaries from the viewpoint of most p
''Elite-Peasant Nexus'' The advent of British Raj in the second half of the 18th century brought misery to the average Be
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...an caste in Eastern Bengal and their alienation from the Congress led anti-British agitation weakened the nationalist movement. Similarly, the Rajbangshis who
...organised for the purpose of mobilisation. From 1912, the Bengal Namasudra Association provided the movement with a more formal organisational network. Thus as th
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...amily of Dhaka having obtained the title of 'Nawab' from the Government of British India distinguished itself as the 'Nawab Family of Dhaka'. Since mid ninete
...nd his nephew Khwaja Alimullah had an enormous success in trading with the British and the Armenians in leather, salt and gold bar and also in money lending b
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...o completed Post Graduate in Tropical Architecture, from the Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture in London, UK in 1957.
Muzharul Islam went on a British Council Scholarship in 1957 for higher training. Later on, he went to USA o
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...ta''' (Kolkata) a mega city of the world, served as the capital of British Indian Empire till December 1911. Subsequently, it was the capital of the undivide
...he three villages: Sutanuti, Gobindapur, Kalikata. On 10 November 1698 the British company became the new zamindar of the three hamlets against a petty paymen
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Bangladesh inherited a system of taxation from its the British and Pakistani regimes. The system, however, developed on the basis of gener
.... During the British rule (1757-1947), the British adopted the traditional Indian land tax for financing administration. They established [[Zamindar|zamindar
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'''''Modern furniture''''' Modern furniture has a direct association with colonial rule. In their trade settlements established in various parts
The development of indigenous plastic furniture in Bangladesh has been in association with imports of readymade plastic commodities from Germany, Malaysia, India
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...fferent places in the country including Dhaka. Among them are the such as: British Council Auditorium, Public Library Auditorium, Dhaka University Teacher-Stu
...th Pal conducted the orchestra, the first of its kind in Bangla as well as Indian theatre. Favourable reviews of performances appeared in the Sambad Prabhaka
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...hitta Ranjan|chitta ranjan das]] and other prominent leaders set up by the Indian National Congress to go into the Jalianwala Bagh Massacre. Huq was the pres
...ss leaders on the question of Non-cooperation. He supported the boycott of British goods and titles related to the programme of the [[Non-Cooperation Movement
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...imperialism, colonialis, fundamentalism and exploitation. In response, the British colonial government proscribed his books and newspapers and put him behind
...essence of Bangla songs apart from their being the Bangla edition of north Indian classical music. Through a wide variety of themes and tunes Nazrul truly tu
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...uddhism at least for two reasons. First, Bengal was the last stronghold of Indian Buddhism where it survived as a socio-cultural force until the twelfth cent
...and sympathy for Buddhism at different periods of time that the history of Indian Buddhism, and hence of the Buddhism of Bangladesh, should be looked at. The
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...Bengal people. Since most religions and rulers, including the Muslims and British, were of extraneous origins, it may be well assumed that external influence
...imilarity with those of the Vedic religion, it was because of the Buddhist association with the Vedic system by contiguity and similarity. Buddhist schools emerge
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...versity was established in 1921 under the Dacca University Act 1920 of the Indian Legislative Council. It was established in the Ramna area of Dhaka City wit
...mind from the 'thraldom of old-world ideas' and initiated a renaissance in Indian life. This put Hindus in advantageous positions in every sphere of influenc
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...ahasthan, Jogi Gupha near Paharpur, Ghatnagar, and Debar Dighi. Some other British administrators like EV Westmacott (1875), H Beveridge (1878), and CJ O'Donn
...Inscription|mahasthan brahmi inscription]]), points to the site's probable association with the Mauryan Empire, perhaps as a provincial capital.
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...red the tenants to the status of owner-occupier, which they enjoyed in pre-British period.
...ission of the deputy commissioner was illegal. In 1977, the Tribal Welfare Association (TWA) was formed in the northern districts. Permission from the TWA is requ
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* Agarwal, Ashvini Department of Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology, Punjab University
* Ahmed, Abu Nasar Saied Department of Arts and Sociology, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
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...es. Inscriptions refer to a revenue officer kwn as Mahaksapatalika who, in association with Jyestha-Kayastha, controlled the Accounts. The Mahadandanayaka was an
...receiving agents enjoying jagirs (assignments of lands) like their rthern Indian counterparts. The sultani regime in Bengal seems to have continued the some
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...fluential British writers referred to the treatment of women in condemning Indian religions, culture, and society as inferior.
...ased in incidence and the 1856 Act had little impact on women's lives. The British were the foreign overlords and their pronouncements regarding social custom
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The Senas, with their strong Brahmanical bias and distinct south Indian background, extended widespread patronage to performances derived from Sans
.... He synthesised the indigenous musical tradition of Bengal with the north Indian classical tradition and arrived at its unique blend.
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...oreigners also used this name, when came the Mughal subah Bangalah and the British province of Bengal.
...chchhas or untouchables, was inevitable. This affected their caste purity. Association with the Muslims was called Yavana-dosa (dosa meaning offence). Besides Yav
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...edicine continued developing till the eighteenth century, the inception of British Empire. The development of Unani medicines centred around the cities of Del
...hic doctors. However, with firmer administrative hold over the colony, the British felt the need of appointing good English doctors and introduced changes in
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...was subsequently divided independent Bangladesh and West Bengal under the Indian Union. The pattern has been more or less the same in other parts of the sub
...dependent on agriculture as against an all-India average of 69.8%. During British rule these people belonged to different social groups: rent-receiving landl
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.... The production of fish in ponds was 24.9% of the total catch in 1987-88. Indian and Chinese carps are the major fishes in pond culture. The fish production
...isheries Officer jointly with the representative of the National Fishermen Association. After approval by the district committee, the Upazila Fisheries Officer wo
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