... of 1947. Across the country, strolling visitors marveled a few years ago at all the silken saris and bright turbans of the Festival of India (SMITHSONIAN, June 1985) and, even more, at the exotic world they evoke: the bejeweled splendor of the Mogul courts; dusty, teeming streets ... long, sweltering evenings, they smoked hookahs, sometimes loaded with opium, and were pleasantly distracted at titillating nautch dances. If the rewards of a posting to India were high, the risks were higher. "Two monsoons are the age of a man" ran a gloomy company saying, and many a company man did ... re...

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... leading players. His assessment of Mountbatten, in particular, is illuminating. Furthermore, though there have been innumerable books and papers covering the partition of India, some of Menon's most interesting observations have been overlooked. Menon was also exceptional in that he came from a very humble background and ... described below, after which he became one of Mountbatten's most trusted advisers. Mountbatten's instructions were to try to obtain a unitary government for British India and the States through a Constituent Assembly set up in accordance with the Cabinet Mission Pla...

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... the British gained at the end of the Napoleonic Wars and which served a key role in outfitting ships on the British trade route to India. The role and importance of Africa to the British soon changed though do to imperial competition with France and Germany. Germany under the aggressive ... successfully became overlords of the Buganda Kingdom with little bloodshed. The only problem that arose from this was the fact that the British East India Company had neither the money nor the military needed to politically control the region. Lugard's expenses in the hinterland and the lack of fina...

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... the British gained at the end of the Napoleonic Wars and which served a key role in outfitting ships on the British trade route to India. The role and importance of Africa to the British soon changed though do to imperial competition with France and Germany. Germany under the aggressive ... successfully became overlords of the Buganda Kingdom with little bloodshed. The only problem that arose from this was the fact that the British East India Company had neither the money nor the military needed to politically control the region. Lugard's expenses in the hinterland and the lack of fina...

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... new sense of nationalism in colonised territories. After World War II for example, with the defeat of the tyrannical and imperialistic enemy, Nazi Germany, nations like India gained a new outlook on their place within the world, not needing to be ruled by a greater force, such as the British Empire. The British ... with it being an empire of non-integration, the aim was to rule over a colony that did not have to be allied with the culture and traditions of the Mother country itself. With this, it is understandable as to how nationalist leaders could easily influence the colony to break aw...

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... . They did not go to Britain to settle down and assimilate, but their aims were to take over the reign of government and usually markedly influence even damaged the original culture. So we cannot talk about immigration in Britain without talking about these first invaders. Therefore between AD43 and 411 Britain was part of Roman Empire. During this year period, people ... of the country, the Vikings arrived, bringing a distinctive new influence to the cultural pot, particularly to northern Britain and modern-day East Anglia, but also nearly eradicating the indigenous Christian culture. B...

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