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In the British census of India of 1941, Kashmir registered a Muslim majority population of 77 %, a Hindu population of 20 % and a sparse population of Buddhists and Sikhs comprising the remaining 3 %.
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In the last census of British India in 1941, the total population of Kashmir and Jammu ( which as a result of the second world war, was estimated from the 1931 census ) was 3, 945, 000.
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British and India
* 1639 – Madras ( now Chennai ), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.
* 1942 – Indian leader Mohanda Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces, launching the Quit India Movement.
Turing was conceived at Chhatrapur, Orissa, in British India.
Julius's work with the ICS brought the family to British India, where his grandfather had been a general in the Bengal Army.
* 1942 – Quit India Movement is launched in India against the British rule in response to Mohandas Gandhi's call for swaraj or complete independence.
* Independence Day, celebrates the day on which Pakistan was made an independent country based on border lines created by the British during the end of their rule of India in 1947.
* 1947 – India gains Independence from the British Indian Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
* 1919 – Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British troops massacre at least 379 unarmed demonstrators in Amritsar, India.
While in India, Hasan Ali Shah continued his close relationship with the British, and was even visited by the Prince of Wales when the future King Edward VII was on a state visit to India.
Hasan Ali Shah received protection from the British government in British India as the spiritual head of an important Muslim community.
In 1906, the Aga Khan was a founding member and first president of the All India Muslim League, a political party which pushed for the creation of an independent Muslim nation in the north west regions of South Asia, then under British colonial rule, and later established the country of Pakistan in 1947.
In 1947, British rule in the South Asia was replaced by the sovereign, independent nations of India, Pakistan and later Bangladesh, resulting in the migration of millions people and significant loss of life and property.
After the end of the war the islands briefly returned to British control, before becoming part of the newly independent state of India.
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It is generally dated to the early 19th century, when soldiers from Athy, County Kildare served the British East India Company.
* Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government and the monopolistic East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies.
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British and 1941
* Herbert Austin ( 1866 – 1941 ), British founder of the Austin Motor Company
* 1941 – World War II: The Italian convoy Duisburg, directed to Tunisia, is attacked and destroyed by British ships.
* 1941 – Julie Christie, British actress
* Arthur Wellesley, 5th Duke of Wellington ( 1876 – 1941 ), British soldier and nobleman
Starting in 1941, the British developed the " en portee " method of mounting an anti-tank gun ( initially a 2 pounder ) on a truck.
* 1941 – Gorden Kaye, British actor
* 1941: Jeannie Chapman and her children said they had escaped their home when a tall Sasquatch approached their residence in Ruby Creek, British Columbia.
* Columbus ( novel ), a 1941 novel by the British writer Rafael Sabatini depicting the explorations of Christopher Columbus
In the British Army, all cavalry regiments were mechanised between 1929 and 1941, redefining their role from horse to armoured vehicles to form the Royal Armoured Corps together with the Royal Tank Regiment.
* 1875 – Evelyn Underhill, British poet ( d. 1941 )
* 1941 – John Levene, British actor
* 1941 – Michael Pinder, British musician ( Moody Blues )
When the British army conquered Eritrea from the Italians in spring 1941, most of the infrastructures and the industrial areas were extremely damaged.
British forces defeated the Italian army in Eritrea in 1941 at the Battle of Keren and placed the colony under British military administration until Allied forces could determine its fate.
* 1857 – Robert Baden-Powell, British soldier, author, and Scout movement founder ( d. 1941 )
* 1941 – Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer ( d. 1972 )
* 1941 – Paddy Ashdown, British politician
Meanwhile, Japan ( allied to Germany and Italy since September 1940 ) attacked the British in Southeast Asia and the United States in Hawaii on 7 December 1941 ; Germany then completed its over-extension by declaring war on the United States.
As a result, and because a British blockade initially hindered foreign relief efforts, a wide-scale famine resulted, when hundreds of thousands perished, especially in the winter of 1941 – 1942.
*, British aircraft carrier launched in 1937 that participated in World War II and was sunk by a U-boat in 1941.
In September 1941, Stalin told British diplomats that he wanted two agreements: ( 1 ) a mutual assistance / aid pact and ( 2 ) a recognition that, after the war, the Soviet Union would gain the territories in countries that it had taken pursuant to its division of Eastern Europe with Hitler in the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact.
Very early conferences, such as that with British diplomats in Moscow in 1941 and with Churchill and American diplomats in Moscow in 1942, focused mostly upon war planning and supply, though some preliminary postwar reorganization discussion also occurred.
* 1941 – World War II: U. S. forces land in Iceland, taking over from an earlier British occupation.
* 1941 – World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops.
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