Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Calcutta and Burmah Steam Navigation Company had been formed out of Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co, a trading partnership of the Scots William Mackinnon and Robert Mackenzie, to carry mail between Calcutta and Rangoon. It became British India SN Co in 1862. Under the hand of Lord Inchcape, who had become chairman in 1913, the company became part ...
In 1820, India's GDP was 16% of the global GDP. By 1870, it had fallen to 12%, and by 1947 to 4%. India's per-capita income remained mostly stagnant during the Raj, with most of its GDP growth coming from an expanding population. Per capita income growth from 1850 to 1900 is estimated to range from 0.75% to 1.25% annually.
Founded in 1827, Sri Mariamman Temple is Singapore's oldest Hindu temple. Tamil traders pioneered the settlement of Serangoon in early 19th century. Indian contact was rekindled from 1819 to World War II, when both India and Singapore were under British colonial rule.
The establishment of a British trading post in Singapore in 1819 by Sir Stamford Raffles led to its founding as a British colony in 1824. This event has generally been understood to mark the founding of colonial Singapore, [1] a break from its status as a port in ancient times during the Srivijaya and Majapahit eras, and later, as part of the Sultanate of Malacca and the Johor Sultanate.
In 1826, Singapore was grouped by the British East India Company [42] together with Penang and Malacca to form the Straits Settlements, administered by the British East India Company. In 1830, the Straits Settlements became a residency, or subdivision, of the Bengal Presidency in British India. [43]
The East India Company ( EIC) [ a ] was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. [ 4 ] It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the South and Southeast Asia ), and later with East Asia. The company gained control of large parts of South Asia and colonised ...
The 1915 Singapore Mutiny, (also known as the 1915 Sepoy Mutiny or the Mutiny of the 5th Light Infantry) was a mutiny of elements of the British Indian Army 's 5th Light Infantry in the colony of Singapore. Up to half of the regiment, which consisted of Indian Muslims predominantly from Muslim Rajput background, mutinied on 15 February 1915 due ...
British East India Company. Wikimedia Commons has media related to British East India Company. The British East India Company (1600−1874) — active on the Indian subcontinent and in Southeast Asia during the British colonisation of Asia . The main article for this category is East India Company.