Ajaigarh was the capital of a princely state of the same name during the British Raj.

Ajmer-Merwara was directly administered by the British Raj, by a commissioner who was subordinate to the Governor-General's agent for Rajputana.

When it fell to the British Raj, the fort was dismantled on the orders of Lord William Bentinck and was converted into a sanatorium for the British troops stationed at the garrison town of Nasirabad.

Ajmer is notable for its public schools formed in accordance with the precepts of English public schools, amongst which are Mayo College, founded by the British Raj in 1875 to educate the children of Rajputana's royalty and nobles.

* British Raj, rule of India in the late 19th Century and early 20th Century

Its name originates from the gin's popularity in India during the British Raj and the sapphire in question is the Star of Bombay on display at the Smithsonian Institution.

Indian Law is largely based on English common law because of the long period of British colonial influence during the period of the British Raj.

Curry powder is a spice mixture of widely varying composition developed by the British during the days of the Raj as a means of approximating the taste of Indian cuisine at home.

Punjabi biopic Jatt Jeona Morh about the noted dacoit, Jatt Jeona Morh, was made in 1991, also in the same year came, Jagga Dakubased on a noted outlaw and dacoit during British Raj, Jagga Daku.

During the British Raj, famines in India, often attributed to failed government policies, were some of the worst ever recorded, including the Great Famine of 1876 – 78 in which 6. 1 million to 10. 3 million people died and the Indian famine of 1899 – 1900 in which 1. 25 to 10 million people died.

In general, the princely states were strong supporters of the British regime, and the Raj left them alone.

From 1920 leaders such as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi began highly popular mass movements to campaign against the British Raj using largely peaceful methods.

Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India ( 2000 )

In the era of bygone kings and the British Raj these Hundis served as Travellers Cheques.

The ancient city of Harappa was greatly destroyed under the British Raj, when bricks from the ruins were used as track ballast in the making of the Lahore-Multan Railroad.

All of the European colonies on the Indian subcontinent which were not part of the British Raj have been annexed by the Republic of India since it gained its independence from the British Empire.

In India, where Muslims form a large minority, the largest Islamic seminary ( Darul Uloom Deoband ) has vehemently opposed recent government moves to abrogate and liberalize laws from the British Raj era that banned homosexuality.

Nehru declared that the only two parties that mattered in India were the British Raj and Congress.

It is locally known as the " City of Lights " () and " The bride of the cities " () for its liveliness, and the " City of the Quaid " (), having been the birth and burial place of Quaid-e-Azam, the Great Leader, ( Muhammad Ali Jinnah ), the founder of Pakistan, who made the city his home after Pakistan's independence from the British Raj on 14 August 1947.

During the period of British rule, classical architecture was preferred for monuments of the British Raj.

With Congress now behind him in 1920, Gandhi had the base to employ non-cooperation, non-violence and peaceful resistance as his " weapons " in the struggle against the British Raj.

In 1897 British physicist J. J. Thomson showed the rays were composed of a previously unknown negatively charged particle, which was later named the electron.

His experience in the region and in particular his perceived Labour sympathies at that time led to Clement Attlee appointing him Viceroy of India after the war, charged with overseeing the transition of British India to independence no later than 1948.

General der Flieger Hellmuth Felmy, commander of Luftflotte 2 in 1939, was charged with devising a plan for an air war over the British Isles.

In May 2003, a number of newspapers named Freddie Scappaticci as the alleged identity of the British Force Research Unit's most senior informer within the IRA, code-named Stakeknife, who is thought to have been head of the IRA's internal security force, charged with rooting out and executing informers.

British Shipbuilders was a combination of the major shipbuilding companies including Cammell Laird, Govan Shipbuilders, Swan Hunter, and Yarrow Shipbuilders ; the nationalisation of the coal mines in 1947 created a coal board charged with running the coal industry commercially so as to be able to meet the interest payable on the bonds which the former mine owners ' shares had been converted into.

However, Calhoun had also sent a letter to British Minister Richard Pakenham that charged the British with attempting to coerce Texas into abolishing slavery.

For the next decade he occupied a series of relatively minor positions in the Tory governments: Undersecretary for War, Chief Secretary for Ireland, and chairman of the Bullion Committee ( charged with stabilizing British finances after the end of the Napoleonic Wars ).

John Bowring, a British politician who had been Bentham's trusted friend, was appointed his literary executor and charged with the task of preparing a collected edition of his works.

" Hess, formerly Hitler's deputy fuhrer, the man charged by Hitler with implementing Nazi Germany's Nuremberg laws, the man who signed the decree establishing the notorious German occupation government of Poland, and since May 1941 in a British Prison, was sentenced to life in prison by the tribunal.

Maxwell Fyfe charged that Raeder had been part of the effort to cover up that it was an U-boat that sank the Athenia and to falsely accuse the British of sinking the Athenia.

Raeder charged that British Commandos had committed atrocities against German forces during the Dieppe raid, and the Commando Order was only a reasonable German response to what he called the British " deviation " from the laws of war.

) The twin communities of Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah, Bountiful, British Columbia, and sites in Mexico are historic locations of several Mormon Fundamentalist sects. Mormon fundamentalist leaders and individuals have been charged under Mann when " wives " are transported across the Utah-Arizona state line or the U. S .– Canadian and U. S .– Mexican borders.

Ionization ( or ionisation, see American and British English spelling differences ) is the process of converting an atom or molecule into an ion by adding or removing charged particles such as electrons or ions.

In British usage, " real property ", often shortened to just " property ", generally refers to land and fixtures, while the term " real estate " is used mostly in the context of probate law, and means all interests in land held by a deceased person at death, excluding interests in money arising under a trust for sale of or charged on land.

The British were charged with restoring order and civilian government in Java.

On March 13, 2004, after fleeing to British Columbia, he was arrested in Victoria for stealing bolt cutters and was also charged with being in Canada illegally.

British historian David Pryce-Jones conceded that Hobsbawm was " no doubt intelligent and industrious, and he might well have made a notable contribution as a historian ", but also charged that, as a professional historian who has " steadily corrupted knowledge into propaganda, and scorns the concept of objective truth ", he was " neither a historian nor professional.

Reverend Zubly was later charged and treated as a traitor to the Revolutionary cause when his views changed, in part because of unfounded accusations of assisting the British.

Ramsay was personally charged by General George Washington to hold the British attack so Washington could save the Colonial Army through a necessary retreat.

Four people were hanged for the crime: two British soldiers, a young Continental soldier, and Spooner's wife, Bathsheba, who was charged with instigating the murder.

An Austrian brigade of three regiments advanced into a gap made by the British retiring and charged the French infantry in the flank while a large Hanoverian artillery battery cannonaded the French line.

In October 2008, Peter Williams, Chief Executive of the UK Quality Assurance Agency ( QAA ), presented the agency's findings to a Parliamentary Select Committee charged with investigating standards in British higher education.

The brigade of the Maison du Roi, the Carabiniers, the Gendarmerie, the finest cavalry of France, charged and charged again, but each time were driven back by the steady discipline and fire of the British infantry.