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...llion is well known. What isn’t is the crucial role played by troops from British India in lifting the siege, which eventually paved the way for the occupat The lifting of the siege was one of only several key instances where Indian troops left an unlikely mark on the course of Chinese history in the early

...127 folios and 247 letters and is preserved in the Oriental section of the British Library, London. ...prepared by Amir Chand. However, no other copy, except a photostat of the British Museum manuscript secured by Dr. Ganda Singh for his personal use, is known

...he Duke of Wellington. He came to India in 1837, and, after serving in the army in various capacities, became the CommanderinChief in 1843. ...vestment ofMultan and Frederick Currie's acquiescence in the movement of a British column to support him incensed Dalhousie. Lord Gough's refusal to dismiss G

...he summer capital of Punjab before Shimla became the summer capital of the British Raj. He attended Midleton College, Co. Cork. Ireland between 1875 and 1881. His next posting was to the Indian Army, joining the Bengal Staff Corps as a Lieutenant in 1887. Soon he was back s

...d by lack of supplies, was defeated by the Bengal and Bombay Armies of the British East India Company. After it capitulated a few days later, the Punjab was a ...he Durbar (court) in Lahore and Agents in several of the regions. The Sikh Army, the Khalsa, was kept in being and used to keep order in the Punjab and Nor

'''[http://www.punjabnewsline.com/content/view/12871/38/ Army to handover Gobindgarh Fort, Amritsar, to Civil admin]''' ...s a magnificent historical moment in the history of the Holy City when the Army would hand over Fort Gobindgarh to the civil administration.

...came a devout Sikh. He was promoted a lance naik, but he resigned from the army in 1905. In April 1906, he migrated to Canada. He played a leading part in ...s of British Columbia, over 90 per cent of whom were Sikhs, to Honduras, a British colony in the tropical Central America. Bhai Balvant Singh visited the Unit

...o commemorate the 90,000 Indian soldiers, of the erstwhile British Indian Army, who died in World War I and the Afghan Wars. Designed by Edwin Lutyens and Following India's independence, India Gate became the site of the Indian Army's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, known as the ''' ''Amar Jawan Jyoti'' ''' (I

...ir unusual way of life. During this period, many books were written by the British about Sikhs, their culture, religion and history. This articles is about th ...soldiers of the many races and classes who so well represented the Indian Army. Our home people were able to see the quality of the men who compose it, wh

The British, who had been waiting for the right moment to intervene and establish their ...active providing personal inspiration and organizing supplies for the Sikh Army. Soon after the defeat at Gujrat, all the other Sikh chiefs had been captur

..., 1st Viscount Hardinge, GCB, PC (30 March 1785 – 24 September 1856) was a British field marshal and Governor-general of India. ==Army career==

...Lahore and, after the treaty of Bharoval tlie same year, he became the British resident there. He served as chairman of the Board of Administration afte ...ought to pacify the common mass of the disbanded soldiery and attach it to British interests. He reduced tensions in the frontier districts by pacification an

...her, Sahib singh was a soldier in the Sikh Army and had fought against the British. After passing the matriculation examination, Mota Singh trained as a junio ...ased from jail in December 1919, on the eve of the Amritsar session of the Indian national congress, which he attended. He joined the Akali movement for the

Baldev Singh was an Indian Sikh political leader, who represented the Punjabi Sikh community in the pr ...sh Comission had come out to India in the spring of 1942, on behalf of the British War Cabinet, with proposals for the country`s political future. In June 194

...r) Claude Wade, the political agent at Ludhiana and officerincharge of British relations with the Punjab and with the chiefs of Afghanistan. For the nex ...tinuing to add to the distrust of the Sikh army from feeling suspicious of British intentions, in which situation the war was an inevitability.

...stablished by Maulvi Barkatulla and S. L. Joshi appears to be the earliest Indian organization with some political purpose. It did not survive Barkatulla's d ...paper, but there is no doubt that, such as it was, it was inimical to the British Government and prepared the ground for the serious trouble which arose late

...llion among members of the British forces, thereby forcing the fall of the British empire and hasten their departure from India. ...called press conference at the residence of Bua Singh, SSP, Amritsar. The Army Generals and Deputy Commissioner, Amritsar were also present. However, imme

...time of his father's death. As he grew up, he was given appointment by the British as extraassistant commissioner for Amritsar district. He was also nominat ...e same year he received from [[Maharaja Duleep Singh]], living as a ranked British noble in London after being deprived of the throne of the Punjab, a wire in

...1849, Karam Singh joined the Corps of Guides which had been raised by the British in the cis-Sutlej territory in 1846 which was later reorganized as 5th (Gu ...pective of the fact whether they were actual rebels or even friends of the British. The General had issued an order to spare women and children, but it was ho

...red Myanmar as a part of British India that has cultural affinity with the Indian people. But to my surprise, Burmese people have no common heritage with Ind ...(Rangoon) University was among the top ten Indian Universities before the British divided India and declared Burma as an independent country. It has a sprawl