Its many subspecies are native to all but the harshest climes of continental Eurasia and its islands and Africa as well, from Ireland and India to Japan and north to Siberia.

* The Bengal tiger ( Panthera tigris tigris ), also called the Indian tiger, lives in India, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh, and is the most common subspecies with populations estimated at less than 2, 500 adult individuals.

* Sus scrofa affinis: This subspecies is smaller than S. s. cristatus and found in southern India and Sri Lanka.

Striped hyenas occasionally feed on boars, though it has been suggested that only hyenas from the three larger subspecies present in Northwest Africa, the Middle East, and India can successfully kill them.

The Common Blackbird occurs up to 1000 metres ( 3300 ft ) in Europe, 2300 metres ( 7590 ft ) in North Africa, and at 900 – 1820 metres ( 3000 – 6000 ft ) in peninsular India and Sri Lanka, but the large Himalayan subspecies range much higher, with T. m. maximus breeding at 3200 – 4800 metres ( 10560 – 16000 ft ) and remaining above 2100 metres ( 6930 ft ) even in winter.

The nominate subspecies, N. p. percnopterus, has the largest range, occurring in southern Europe, northern Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, and the north-west of India.

The subspecies name is derived from Gingee in southern India.

Its eight subspecies breed on mountains and coastal cliffs from the western coasts of Ireland and Britain east through southern Europe and North Africa to Central Asia, India and China.

Its two subspecies breed in high mountains from Spain east through southern Europe and North Africa to Central Asia, India and China, and it may nest at a higher altitude than any other bird.

The Pale Martin is the subspecies diluta of northern India and southeastern China is sometimes split as a separate species Riparia diluta.

In India, the subspecies govinda shows large seasonal fluctuations with the highest numbers seen from July to October, after the Monsoons, and it has been suggested that they make local movements in response to high rainfall.

Two further subspecies have been proposed, U. e. minor in South Africa and U. e. orientalis in north western India.

In southern India and Sri Lanka, subspecies caniceps, is marked by the rufous restricted to the rump, light crown and the pure grey on the back.

In southern India, the Maldives ( sometimes separated as maledivicus ) and Sri Lanka, the subspecies C. s. protegatus is darker grey.

As many as six subspecies may be present in the wintering ground in India or Southeast Asia and here they can be difficult to distinguish.

Nominate subspecies ( Kolkata, India )

The nominate subspecies is found in the northeastern part of peninsular India south to Hyderabad.

The Bengal tiger ( Panthera tigris tigris ) or Indian tiger is a tiger subspecies native to South Asia, and is the national animal of India and Bangladesh.

The Bengal tiger is the most numerous tiger subspecies with populations estimated at 1, 706 – 1, 909 in India, 440 in Bangladesh, 124 – 229 in Nepal and 67 – 81 in Bhutan.

All three Green-winged Teal subspecies occur in the northern hemisphere during summer and in winter extend to northern South America, central Africa, southern India, Burma, and the Philippines.

The South Asian river dolphin ( Platanista gangetica ) is a freshwater or river dolphin found in India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan which is split into two subspecies, the Ganges river dolphin ( P. g. gangetica ) and Indus river dolphin ( P. g. minor ).

The Ganges subspecies ( P. g. gangetica ) can be found along the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna and Karnaphuli-Sangu river systems of Bangladesh and India, although its range formerly extended to Nepal.

The subspecies R. a. indicus has, in addition to its distinctive plumage, very different vocalisations to the other subspecies, and it was considered a separate species in early works, including the first edition ( 1898 ) of Fauna of British India, but later demoted to a subspecies by E. C. Stuart Baker in the second edition ( 1929 ).

Subspecies pica has been said to be the form that migrates between Africa and India however Rasmussen & Anderton ( 2005 ) suggest serratus as being the valid name for the Afro-Indian migrants.

Several Frenchmen living in " a dozen huts " abandoned Diego Garcia when the British East India Company attempted to establish a settlement there in April 1786.

The most recent cases of impeachment dealt with Warren Hastings, Governor-General of India between 1773 and 1786 ( impeached in 1788 ; the Lords found him not guilty in 1795 ), and Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, First Lord of the Admiralty, in 1806 ( acquitted ).

* According to a Royal warrant of October 31, 1786, the Swedish East India Company had the right to use the triple-tailed war ensign in " Indian waters ", when not being under immediate protection by the Swedish navy.

George Town was founded on 11 August 1786 by Captain Francis Light, a trader for the British East India Company, as base for the company in the Malay States.

Mccartney declined the governor-generalship of India ( then the British territories administered by the British East India Company ) and returned to Britain in 1786.

* Joseph Salvador ( 1716 − 1786 ), head of the British East India Company, leader of the Sephardic community in Great Britain, and great-grandfather of Francis Salvador

* The Swedish West India Company, founded in 1786

The Marathas were still in a very strong position when the new British Governor General Cornwallis arrived in India in 1786.

Joseph Salvador ( 1716 – 1786 ) was a British-Jewish businessman, perhaps most notable for being the first and only Jew to have become a director of the British East India Company.

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Fairfax Moresby GCB ( 1786 – 21 January 1877 ), born in Calcutta, India, to English parents was a British naval officer.

In the autumn of 1786, the Svenska Västindiska Kompaniet ( Swedish West India Company ) was established on the island.

George Burges ( 1786 – January 11, 1864 ) was an English classical scholar born in India.

His Recherches historiques et geographiques sur L ' Inde appeared in 1786, and formed part of Thieffenthaler's Geography of India.

Despite the above, the discovery of the genetic relationship of the whole family of Indo-European languages is often attributed to Sir William Jones, a British judge in India who in a 1786 lecture ( published 1788 ) observed that

British General Charles, 2nd Earl Cornwallis became the Governor-General of India and Commander-in-Chief for the British East India Company in 1786.

Born Caroline Anne Bowles on 6 December 1786 at Buckland Manor, near Lymington, she was the only child of Captain Charles Bowles ( 1737 – 1801 ), retired from the East India Company, and Anne Burrard ( 1753 – 1817 ), a prominent local family.

The town was founded by the VOC Dutch East India Company in 1786, being named after the then governor of Cape Colony, Cornelis Jacob van de Graeff, and his wife, whose maiden name was " Reynet ".

The first banks were The General Bank of India, which started in 1786, and Bank of Hindustan, which started in 1770 ; both are now defunct.

He married Louise von Plessen ( 1827 – 1875 ), daughter of the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Governor ( Großherzoglich Mecklenburgischen Oberlanddrost ) Ulrich von Plessen und great-granddaughter of Baron ( Reichsfreiherr ) Seneca von Gelting ( 1715 – 1786 ), who was married to a nice of Johannes Thedens and had become highly wealthy as chargé d ' affaires of the Dutch East India Company in Cirebon.

In 1786 Charles Cornwallis was sent out to India to reform the company's practices.

In 1786 the East India Company Court of Directors first proposed a permanent settlement for Bengal, changing the policy then being followed by Calcutta, which was attempting to increase taxation of zamindars.