Diwan (title)

•  Koh-i-Noor

  The Kōh-i Nūr which means "Mountain of Light" from Persian, also spelled Kohinoor, Koh-e Noor or Koh-i-Nur, is a 105 carat (21.6 g) diamond that was once the largest known diamond in the world. The Kohinoor originated at Kollur, Guntur district in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India. It has belonged to various Hindu, Mughal, Persian, Afghan, Sikh and British rulers who fought bitterly over it at various points in history and seized it as a spoil of war time and again.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Thuggee

  Thuggee (or tuggee, ठग्गी ṭhagī) (from Hindi ठग ṭhag ‘thief’, from Sanskrit स्थग sthaga ‘cunning’, ‘sly’, ‘fraudulent’, ‘dishonest’, ‘scoundrel’, from स्थगति sthagati ‘he conceals’) is the term for a particular kind of murder and robbery of travellers in India.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  East India Company

  The East India Company (also the East India Trading Company, English East India Company and then the British East India Company) was an early English joint-stock company that was formed initially for pursuing trade with the East Indies, but that ended up trading mainly with the Indian subcontinent and China.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Backergunje

  Backergunje, or Bakarganj was a former district of British India in the Dacca division of Eastern Bengal and Assam, and is now mostly in Bangladesh. With an area of 4,542 sq mi (11,760 km), it forms part of the joint delta of the Ganges and the Brahmaputra.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Emperor of India

  Emperor/Empress of India was used as a title by the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah II, and revived by the colonial British monarchs during the British Raj in India. The term "Emperor of India" is also used to refer to Indian emperors such as Ashoka the Great of the Maurya Dynasty and Emperor Akbar the Great of the Mughal empire. For instance, Emperor Ashoka used the word 'Samrat' as his title, which means 'emperor' in Indian languages .

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Secretary of State for India

  The office of Secretary of State for India, or India Secretary, was created in 1858 when Company rule in India ended and British India was brought under direct British administration (a period often called the British Raj). The Secretary of State was the political head of the India Office, a new British government department responsible for the government of India, and was a member of the cabinet of the United Kingdom.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  The Jewel in the Crown (TV series)

  The Jewel in the Crown (1984) is a British television serial about the final days of the British Raj in India during World War II, based upon the Raj Quartet novels by Paul Scott. Granada Television produced it for the ITV network.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  President of the Board of Control

  The President of the Board of Control was a British government official in the late 18th and early 19th century responsible for overseeing the British East India Company and generally serving as the chief official in London responsible for Indian affairs. The position was frequently a cabinet level one. The position was abolished in 1858 with the abolition of the East India Company. It was succeeded by the new position of Secretary of State for India.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  List of Indian princely states

  Before the Partition of India in 1947, hundreds of Princely States, also called Native States, existed in India which were not part of British India. These were the parts of the Indian subcontinent which had not been conquered or annexed by the British. Things moved quickly after the partition of British India in 1947. By the end of 1949, all of the states except Sikkim had chosen to accede to one of the newly independent states of India or Pakistan or else had been annexed.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Company rule in India

  Company rule in India (sometimes, Company Raj, "raj," lit. "rule" in Hindi) refers to the rule or dominion of the British East India Company on the Indian subcontinent.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

• British rule in India by likeorhate
• Executive ministers by likeorhate
• Heads of government by likeorhate
• Heads of state by likeorhate
• History of medieval India by likeorhate
• Titles of national or ethnic leadership by likeorhate
• Titles in India by likeorhate
• Titles in Pakistan by likeorhate

Register now, and make your vote count more!

•  1823

  Year 1823 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Somogy County

  Somogy is the name of an administrative county in present Hungary, and also in the former Kingdom of Hungary.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Capiago Intimiano

  Capiago Intimiano is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Como in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 35 km north of Milan and about 6 km southeast of Como. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 5,196 and an area of 5.7 km². The municipality of Capiago Intimiano contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) olmeda and intimiano. Capiago Intimiano borders the following municipalities: Cantù, Como, Lipomo, Montorfano, Orsenigo, Senna Comasco.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Michael Baroody

  Michael E. "Mike" Baroody (born September 14, 1946) is an American lobbyist.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Now Is the Time!

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  100.0%