...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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...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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...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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'''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
Chandannagar became a part of the Indian Union through a referendum held in 1949. The town still retains some of its
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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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...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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...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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...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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