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How British photography represented Indian women—nautch girl, aayah, bhadramahila
In 'Framing Portraits, Binding Albums', edited by Shilpi Goswami and Suryanandini Narain, dwells on the importance of family ...
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Three Million
The forgotten story of World War II: the Bengal famine in British India, where at least three million people died, told for the first time by the eyewitnesses to it. "Three million is great radio ...
Yesterdate: This day from Kolkata’s past, January 25, 1802
John Cartier, Governor of Bengal, died on this day. Cartier was first employed as a writer for the British East India Company ...
How UK’s top 10% benefited the most from colonial India’s wealth
Between 1765 and 1900, the British Empire took $64.82 trillion from India during colonialism, a recent Oxfam report has found. Of this, more than 52 per cent of the wealth ended up in the hands of the ...
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KS3 History: The East India Company - From greed to famine
Not surprisingly other British and foreign investors followed ... This siphoning of wealth was devastating for Bengal, resulting in the Bengal famine. The depopulation of Bengal led to a drop ...
The British Raj extracted $65 trillion from India: Fact or fiction?
Is there a case for reparations? Oxfam’s huge estimate of the money drained from India by Britain’s colonial rule does not ...
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UK's richest 10% took half of India's wealth during colonial era: Oxfam report
"This would be enough to carpet the surface area of London in British pound 50 notes almost ... The report further pointed out the devastating Bengal famine of 1943, which resulted in an estimated ...