British raj: Facts & Related Content
Facts
Date | 1857 - 1947 |
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Location | India • Pakistan |
Participants | British Empire • India • Pakistan |
Context | East India Company • Government of India Acts • Indian Mutiny |
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Reginald Dyer
British general
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Mahatma Gandhi
Indian leader
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James Andrew Broun Ramsay, marquess and 10th earl of Dalhousie
governor-general of India
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Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten
British statesman
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John Laird Mair Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence
British colonial official
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Mangal Pandey
Indian soldier
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Charles John Canning, Earl Canning
British official
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Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st earl of Lytton
British diplomat and poet
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Abdur Rahman Khan
emir of Afghanistan
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Nana Sahib
Indian rebel
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Richard Southwell Bourke, 6th earl of Mayo
viceroy of India
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Thomas George Baring, 1st earl of Northbrook
British statesman
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Edwin Samuel Montagu
British politician
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Shīr ʿAlī Khān
emir of Afghanistan
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Bahādur Shāh II
Mughal emperor