Patel engaged the British envoys Sir Stafford Cripps and Lord Pethick-Lawrence and obtained an assurance that the " grouping " clause would not be given practical force, Patel converted Nehru, Rajendra Prasad and Rajagopalachari to accept the plan.

Sir P. Rajagopalachari, during his tenure as the Dewan of Travancore, introduced legislation to give Dalit and Ezhava children access to schools, despite protests from Malayali upper-castes.

In 1946, during Jamia ’ s silver jubilee celebration, one could see the crisis that India had to face in the following year: Mr. Mohammad Ali Jinnah, and Liaquat Ali Khan were on one side of Dr. Zakir Husain, the vice chancellor, on the dias ; Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Asaf Ali and Sir Rajagopalachari were on the other side.

Henry Montgomery, Vicar of St Mark's, Kennington, at that time, was the second son of the noted Indian administrator, Sir Robert Montgomery, who died a month after Bernard's birth.

However it was only in 1927 that the shakta theory of seven main chakras, that has become most popular in the West, was introduced, largely through the translation of two Indian texts: the Sat-Cakra-Nirupana, and the Padaka-Pancaka, by Sir John Woodroffe, alias Arthur Avalon, in a book titled The Serpent Power.

Under pressure, Abdur Rahman agreed in 1893 to accept a mission headed by the British Indian foreign secretary, Sir Mortimer Durand, to define the limits of British and Afghan control in the Pashtun territories.

Other guests included George Bernard Shaw, Albert Einstein, Elinor Glyn, Helen Keller, H. G. Wells, Lord Mountbatten, Fritz Kreisler, Amelia Earhart, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Noël Coward, Max Reinhardt, Baron Nishi, Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Austen Chamberlain, Sir Harry Lauder, and the Indian spiritual teacher Meher Baba.

In the preceding year, the British government had appointed a new constitutional reform commission under Sir John Simon, which did not include any Indian as its member.

* 1946 – The British Cabinet Mission, consisting of Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps and A. V. Alexander, arrives in India to discuss and plan for the transfer of power from the British Raj to Indian leadership.

* 1898 – Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian educator and politician ( b. 1817 )

* 1888 – Sir C. V. Raman, Indian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1970 )

On 29 December 1930, Sir Muhammad Iqbal called for an autonomous state in " northwestern India for Indian Muslims ".

The savant Sir William Jones often refers to the Indian mythological Vānaras as satyrs / mountaineers in his translations of Sanskrit works.

In 1969 it was formally launched to protest the arrest of West Indian students at Sir George Williams University in Montreal.

* March 27 – Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian university founder ( b. 1817 )

* February 26 – Sir Everton Weekes, West Indian cricketer

The Rise of West Indian Democracy: The Life and Times of Sir Grantley Adams.

It is usually attributed to renowned orientalist and author Sir Richard Francis Burton, but the chief work was done by the pioneering Indian archaeologist, Bhagwanlal Indraji, under the guidance of Burton's friend, the Indian civil servant Forster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot, and with the assistance of a student, Shivaram Parshuram Bhide.

* George Stubbs ' Cheetah with Two Indian Attendants and a Stag ( 1764 – 1765 ) also shows the cheetah as a hunting animal and commemorates the gift of a cheetah to George III by the English Governor of Madras, Sir George Pigot

Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, was an Irish pioneer and army officer in colonial New York, and the British Superintendent of Indian Affairs from 1755 to 1774.

Her first marriage, on 28 September 1933, was to Edward Alec Abbot Snelson ( 1904 – 1992 ), later Sir Edward, a British civil servant who became a noted judge and expert in Indian affairs.

Heatherden Hall ( converted to production offices ) has appeared in several films: it was made to look fire-damaged and derelict for the 1972 children's film The Amazing Mr Blunden and also appeared as the Indian residence of Governor Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond in Carry On up the Khyber.

* Sir S. Subramania Iyer, theosophist and Indian freedom fighter who was one of the founders of the Home Rule Movement.

First granted by colonial governor Jonathan Belcher in 1735 as Number 9 ( ninth in a line of forts to guard against Indian attacks ), it was regranted in 1753 as Dupplin, after Sir Thomas Hay, Viscount Dupplin, by Governor Benning Wentworth.

Havelock is one of eight cities in the world named after Sir Henry Havelock, a British Officer in India, who distinguished himself in 1857 during what was known as The Indian Mutiny.

" The tension between the local people, led by the Indian National Congress and the Communists, and Sir.

The National Museum of Australia in Canberra holds a significant collection of memorabilia relating to Robert Menzies, including a range of medals and civil awards received by Sir Robert such as his Jubilee and Coronation medals, Order of Australia, Companion of Honour and US Legion of Merit.

* September 15 – Sir Donald Bailey, British civil engineer ( died 1985 )

* May 19 – Sir Benjamin Baker, English civil engineer ( b. 1840 )

* November 20 – Sir John Fowler, British civil engineer ( b. 1817 )

** Sir Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer ( b. 1819 )

* August 11 – Sir Michael Kerry, QC, British civil servant, former Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor ( d. 2012 )

It comprises expanded and revised versions of two pamphlets that he wrote at the request of Sir Edward Bridges ( then head of the Civil Service ); Plain Words, published in 1948 as a two-shilling pamphlet aimed at civil servants and An ABC of Plain Words which was published in 1951.

Lesser known, but still historically notable pit bulls include Helen Keller's family dog " Sir Thomas ", Buster Brown's dog " Tige ", Horatio Jackson's dog " Bud ", President Theodore Roosevelt's Pit Bull terrier " Pete ", " Jack Brutus " who served for Company K, the First Connecticut Volunteer Infantry during the civil war and Sir Walter Scott's beloved " Wasp ".

Unsatisfied aspirations, particularly among young blacks, led to a brief civil disturbance in December 1977, following the execution of two men found guilty of the 1972 – 73 assassinations of Governor Sir Richard Sharples and four others.

His father, Sir Kingsley Amis, was the son of a mustard manufacturer's clerk from Clapham, London ; his mother, Hilary " Hilly " Bardwell, was the daughter of a Ministry of Agriculture civil servant.

Occasionally, however, Hacker does get his way, often inadvertently thwarting other arrangements or deals that Sir Humphrey has been making behind the scenes elsewhere with other ministers or civil servants.

Her experience and insight into many civil service tricks ensure a lasting mutual distrust between her and Sir Humphrey and provide an invaluable second opinion for Hacker.

The fairly counter-intuitive view of government administration displayed by Sir Humphrey's is completely taken for granted by the civil service.

Woolley tends to side with Hacker when new policies are announced, because they seem radical or democratic, only for Sir Humphrey to point out the disadvantages to the status quo and the civil service in particular.

Meanwhile, Sir Humphrey's civil service colleagues were regularly featured.

Sir Samuel Morton Peto, 1st Baronet ( 4 August 1809 – 13 November 1889 ) was an English entrepreneur, civil engineer and railway developer.

Major-General Sir Thomas Morgan ( 1st Baronet 1604-79 ) served in the Commonwealth forces during English civil war from 1642-9, was Governor of Gloucester 1645, fought in Flanders, wounded, and in 1661 retired to his estate in Kynnersley, Herts.

Sir Edward Howard Marsh KCVO CB CMG ( 18 November 1872 – 13 January 1953 ) was a British polymath, translator, arts patron and civil servant.

Sir Benjamin Baker KCB KCMG FRS FRSE ( 31 March 1840 – 19 May 1907 ) was an eminent English civil engineer who worked in mid to late Victorian era.

His grandson was Lt Col Arthur John Barry CBE, TD, MICE ( 1859 – 1943 ), civil engineer and architect, son of Charles Barry, Jr. and pupil and later partner of Sir John Wolfe-Barry.

Margravine Road recalls the existence of Brandenburg House, a riverside mansion built by Sir Nicholas Crispe in the time of Charles I, used as the headquarters of General Fairfax in 1647 during the civil wars, and occupied in 1792 by the margrave of Brandenburg-Anspach and Bayreuth and his wife, and in 1820 by Caroline, consort of George IV.

* Sir James Nicholas Douglass, British civil engineer and lighthouse designer