Dear Esther, 'British Military' covers many things... http://www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/roots/asian/servicerecords/servicerecords.htm If he was in the Indian Army, then you should approach the British Library where remaining service records were deposited after Independence: http://www.bl.uk/collections/orientalandindian.html they are very helpful. Just email with details. If British army: http://www.veterans-uk.info/service_records/army.html and http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/militaryhistory/army/ Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Esther" <lyonsfab@optusnet.com.au> To: <india-british-raj@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 2:03 AM Subject: Re: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] British Army Records > Can someone from the list help me with where I could write to get the > service record of someone who served the British military in India during > the British Raj in 1930 - 1940 till independence of India. thanks > Esther > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.21.8/1340 - Release Date: > 23/03/2008 18:50 > >

Quoting from S. Muthiah's piece in The Hindu: http://www.hinduonnet.com/2001/01/01/stories/13011282.htm Monday, January 01, 2001 The U.S. 'eagle' in Madras I HAD gone to Dwaraknath Reddy's house to see a collection of rare maps of India, dating from 1711 and into the early 19th Century, but what brought me up short, even before a glimpse of his magnificent collection, was an eagle. An American eagle, perched on an iron bar. It was the iron-cast symbol of what was popularly called the 'Eagle press', a renowned early 19th Century printing press. The last time I had seen one of these printing presses was in the Diocesan Press in Vepery in the Seventies. That printing unit, the oldest printing press in continuous existence in the country, is now back to an old name, the CLS Press, but is much smaller than what it used to be when it was the city's leading and biggest printing press. During its truncation and modernisation, out, no doubt, went its 'Eagle press'. Whether what, polished and gleaming, now graces a corner by the entrance to Reddy's home is the same press or not, Reddy does not know. He, an avid collector, bought it from a city antique shop! Reddy's 'Eagle press' is labelled in raised letters just below the eagle, V. & J. Figgins 1871 Columbian Press No. 2748 Ray Street, Farringdon Road London Generically called the Columbian press, the 'Eagle press' has been described in these words, "Of all the nineteenth-century iron hand-presses, the Columbian is not only the most memorable by virtue of its striking appearance, but was the first to be manufactured in great numbers and by a wide variety of firms for a hundred years". The press was invented by George Clymer of Philadelphia over a period from 1800 to 1812 and he, "taking advantage of the development in iron-casting techniques, chose to indulge in an orgy of symbolic decoration on his press". No other press in the 19th Century world stood up to the Columbian's ornamental richness. Neither the press I saw years ago in Vepery nor the unit I saw at Reddy's, certainly in a handsome state, had the ornamentation of Clymer's early presses, ornate though they were. The American Eagle remained, but it no longer "grasped in its talons Jove's thunderbolts, the olive branch of Peace and cornucopia of Plenty, all handsomely bronzed and gilt". Nevertheless, it was a printing press whose visual appearance would stop anyone in his tracks. Clymer moved to London and patented his press in 1817. He then began manufacture of the Columbian, selling one size for £ 100 and a bigger size for £ 4125. The press remained in production for almost the next hundred years, over two dozen British manufacturers making the machine once the patent expired in 1867. One of the new manufacturers was Vincent Figgins, whose work still has a place in Madras. But after Clymer died in 1834, the ornamentation gradually decreased, as Figgins' creation shows. Nevertheless, any 'Eagle press' must cost a pretty penny as an antique. ==================== ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India

History Speaks Explore this blog fully - it's full of old images and maps. http://indiahistoryspeaks.blogspot.com/ Here are two pages from this blog - http://indiahistoryspeaks.blogspot.com/2007/11/general-post-office-mumbai-wonder-of.html and http://indiahistoryspeaks.blogspot.com/2007/12/british-and-tamil-jab-they-meet-fort-st.html ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India

Extracts from 'Nobodies to Somebodies - The Rise of the Colonial Bourgeoisie in Sri Lanka' Kumari Jayawardena, 2000, Social Scientists' Association and Sanjiva Books. ISBN 955-9102-26-5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The book gives a detail account of the rise of the Lankan bourgeoisie during the vast economic changes of the 19th and the early part of the 20th century, and traces the rise and fall of the enterprising communities through the economic gains made in the liquor industry, rents, estates, conversions and plantations etc. Some interesting extracts from the book are highlighted at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lkawgw/nobtosom.html Page 46-47 - The Arrack Renters During Dutch rule, tavern keepers had been mainly burghers and Colombo Chetties, but the ethnic pattern was to change during British rule when the great majority of arrack renters were Sinhala speculators. In the early years of British rule, there were still a few Burghers who had been in the arrack trade in the Dutch period. These included Barend de Vos and J Labrooy, who in the 1790's were arrack renters of Colombo and were referred to by British officials as "native merchants of the island - half-caste but of property and respected" Jacob de Heer, a renter in 1810-11 and in the Kandyan provinces in the 1820's, JA de Bruin who had the Alugoda tavern in 1821 and William Hepponstall who had the Udapalata tavern in 1829. Some Colombo Chetties who had been active in the Dutch period also continued their links with the arrack trade; among them were Christobo Rodrigo Muttu Chitty, renter for Negombo in 1817, L Phillippupulle who in 1817 was referred to as "the late arrack and present gem quarry renter" of Sabaragamuwa and Phillippupulle Masilamaniaya who was the renter in 1825 of the Sabaragamuwa Province. Renters also included members of the Bharatha community of Tuticorin, notable examples being Manuel de Croos, whose name frequently occurs as renter for Negombo in the period from 1817, and Juan de Croos, renter for the same area in 1820, who was later headman of the Bharathas. The few Britishers in the liquor trade included George Bird, the pioneer coffee planter who had the Udapalata tavern in 1825 and Messrs Sergeant Davidson, renter of the Kadugannawa tavern in 1831 and holder of the license to sell liquor at the canteen of the Mahahena Hotel in Kandy in 1832. [snip] ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India

Sunday, July 28, 2002 http://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20020728/spectrum/art.htm Gifts from an ambassador B.N. Goswamy CONTRARY to what most of us might imagine, the first English envoy to India was not appointed after our land became independent in 1947: it was nearly 400 years ago that the first English ambassador came to India. Sir Thomas Roe was the gentleman's name, as every keen student of history would know, and it was King James I of England whom he represented. But the mission had a very specific end in mind: to secure from 'the Great Mogol' - it was the Emperor Jahangir who was in occupation of the throne then - trade concessions on behalf of the still young East India Company. Roe landed at Surat in 1615, and left India some three years later. He was not eminently successful in his mission, at least in his own judgment, but he did something that most ambassadors do at some point or the other of their crowded lives: he wrote a diary of his stay in India. And it is a wonderful account in many ways, rich in detail, filled with fascinating insights into characters and events, free of stuffy inhibitions, and written with wit. Not everything that Sir Thomas Roe wrote may sound 'objective', but one can make allowances. In any case, historians find the account most valuable, for it provides a perspective of the times that is refreshingly different from that which one gains from professional court chroniclers. Or even from the account of his times by Jahangir himself, since the Emperor wrote his own memoirs. The sights and the sounds of India, and the travails of a white man caught between the need to carry out his mission in as dignified a manner as possible and to slip into the Oriental mode of transacting business (while negotiating the hazards of a vastly different climate!), shine forth with brilliance in Roe's mosaic-like account. There are delicious bits one picks up on nearly every page-the careful working out of what height he should be standing at while greeting a Governor, the bending of rules of courtly etiquette which included offering obsequious salutations to the Emperor, the escape from his room in a sarai which had 'four chambers like ovens', the ease that crept into negotiations as soon as a case of European wine bottles was presented, to take some random examples-and the account makes for lively, very lively, reading. One can pick on any series of details, and find richness in the account. But what I am most struck by is the frequency of references to 'gifts and presents', without which, it seems, nothing proceeded in this land of ours then, much as it does not now. Everyone was constantly eyeing the ambassador's crates of baggage, and palms itched everywhere. The Emperor's interest in objects that the ambassador brought in must clearly have been due to his hunger for exotica and novelties than due to avarice, but there was constant talk, even at the highest level in the court, of what was changing hands. Liquor and wine apart-and here one speaks of large cases-one reads about glass bottles of a very special kind, cups made of china, the latest edition of Mercator's maps of the world, even a coach brought in pieces and assembled here. But the demand for foreign goods, small sums of money and objects needed to grease palms and to win favours apart, seemed to be insatiable. And at one point, the ambassador reported to his imperial master in England the wish of Emperor Jahangir to have an English horse, instead of the 'pawky offerings' being made to him from time to time: velvet which had faded, leather cases that had gone mouldy, and mirrors from which the silver coating had peeled. There is even a complaint that one hears, in one of the letters he wrote to the East India Company, about his having to part with his own personal possessions in the absence of any proper gifts that he was left with. My own great favourite in all this is Sir Thomas Roe's account of an exchange that centred around a painting. European works of art, one knows, had arrived in India already in the 16th century, in the great Akbar's times, and Christian subjects aroused great curiosity. But Jahangir's great passion for paintings made him constantly seek works that were different from the work of his own painters, both in respect of technique and theme. The account is not all that easy to follow, for, apart from the curious spelling of many words (here modified for the sake of clarity), it is couched in old English, and there are phrases that one has to struggle to make sense of. The subject here is "a picture of a friend of mine", as Roe writes, "that I esteemed very much, and was for curiosity rare, which I would give His Majesty as a present". When the moment for making the presentation finally came, the Emperor "took extreme content, showing it to every man near him: at last sent for his chief painter, demanding his opinion. The fool answered he could make as good, whereat the King turned to me, saying my man sayeth he can do the like and as well as this: what vow?" A wager was set, the painting handed over to the imperial painter, and on the day appointed, in Roe's own words, the King "sent for me, being hasty to triumph in his workman, and showed me six pictures, five made by his man, all pasted on one table, so like that I was by candle light troubled to discern which was which." The ambassador did identify his own picture eventually, but "for that at first sight I knew it not, he (the Emperor) was very merry and joyful and cracked like a northern man." The account goes on further, and there are merry jests between the Emperor and the ambassador concerning the wager, while the painter's work is much admired for its skills, but ultimately the picture does change hands. Olde English For the sake of getting the flavour of olde English spellings, one should perhaps cite a sentence here as it occurs in the original of Sir Thomas Roe's diary. Thus: "I sent for it (the picture) and astonished him, he seeming to take extreame content, eaven to admiration; assuring mee it would bee the most welcome guift I ever presented .." ==================== ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India

Dear Listers, In my visit to Hong Kong I had noticed that the Ruttonjee Hospital is one of the major hospitals there. As its Wikipedia entry says (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruttonjee_Hospital) <it was set up with the support of Mr Jehangir Hormusjee Ruttonjee in memory of his daughter, Tehmi Ruttonjee-Desai, who died of tuberculosis in 1943... Arvind Kolhatkar, Toronto, March 22, 2008.

Listers, Mandeep says: <This weekend is a blessed one.Apart from Holi, there's Id-e-Milad-un-Nabi (the birthday of the Prophet) and Easter. > The Indian newspapers are saying that this succession of holidays coupled with Saturday and Sunday, have all banks, offices etc closed from Wednesday onwards. All babus can now relax in their houses. They do not have to go to their offices for that! (Grin!) On the topic of the Indian babu's love for taking things easy, I cannot resist narrating the following story, with a suitable kow-tow towards John of course! A visa seeker went to an Indian embassy in the afternoon. The embassy was empty, with all diplomats having gone home early. There was only the lone security guard. The visitor indignantly asked him, "Don't they work in the afternoon?" The guard, being an embassy person, was steeped in diplomacy. He replied, "Sir, your question needs to be reworded. It is in the morning that they don't WORK. In the afternoon they don't COME." Arvind Kolhatkar, Toronto, March 22, 2008.

G'day folks, I wish all of you a Happy "Holi day". ooroo If you don't hear the knock of opportunity - build a door. Anon.

This weekend is a blessed one.Apart from Holi, there's Id-e-Milad-un-Nabi (the birthday of the Prophet) and Easter. Tomorrow is the martyrdom day of Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh, the independence movement's most celebrated revolutionary freedom fighter. And Pakistan Day, the anniversary of the day the Pakistan resolution was introduced in the congress of the All-India Muslim League in 1940 at Lahore. Mandeep Bajwa On 22/03/2008, John Feltham <wulguru.wantok@gmail.com> wrote: > > G'day folks, > > > I wish all of you a Happy "Holi day". > > > > ooroo > > If you don't hear the knock of opportunity - build a door. > > Anon. > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Many of our esteemed members would know what's an ''Anglo Indian Sadeli Card Tray/Basket''. A rare specimen of it, made in Bombay Presidency around 1860, was on sale recently. It's now gone, but you can still see its images at http://www.rubylane.com/shops/rubylane-sold/item/430349x20RL000152 This is how the webpage describes the antique: *** This is a rare example of a surviving Anglo Indian sadeli card tray/basket which was made within the Bombay Presidency of Colonial British India in around 1860. Of octagonal form, the construction is complex and measures 9" by 8" by 2". The carcass is of sandalwood and decorated with an attractive green dominant sadeli and ivory design inset with variable sized roundels. The top lip is veneered in ivory and inset with roundels. The sadeli design is repeated on the interior and exterior frame support and the base is veneered in ebony and finished with the original faded red velvet. The sides of the tray are finished in tortoiseshell and it sits on attractive ivory bun feet. The item was designed as a calling card or letter tray (for staff to deliver the cards or letters of visitors to the Master or Mistress of the House). Condition is exceptional given that few of these items actually survive. This is because the joints are necessarily fragile and the overall complex structure is prone to distortion or fracturing. In this particular case, there are no losses other than minute almost singular pieces of micro mosaic and a tiny slither of ivory on the lip and it is presented in excellent order. The side panels were constructed of a very thin pierced bone and I am yet to find one still intact. Please note that this item has had the bone panels replaced with faux tortoiseshell (which may be removed if not desired). There is minimal distortion to the base which I have addressed by adding an ivory screw to each of the feet so that they can be variated as required. This remains a rare survivor enhanced only with the minor restoration detailed. *** ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India

This has been a long weekend for the lotus eaters in India - four consecutive holidays in a row from Thursday till Sunday (tomorrow). A combination of different religious calendars has given them this bonanza. On Thursday, it was Eed, a Moslem festive occasion. Then Good Friday for the Christians. The fun-loving Hindus in north India consider Holi or Holee (the Festival of Colours) a very important occasion. That too was on Friday. Bonfires were lit throughout the land. The microscopic Parsi or Zoroastrian community in India celebrated Friday as their own New Year's Day - called Jamshedi Navroz, which usually falls on 21st March. Today is the actual day for smearing your friends and strangers alike with colour or drowning them in coloured water- a bacchanalian follow-up of Holi. And tomorrow it will be Easter. I just wanted to tell you this, before showing you the following: Parsis Remembered in Hong Kong On Independance Day (2007) As the tricolour is hoisted to mark the 60th anniversary of India's independence, it is well worth acknowledging the contributions of the Indian diaspora across the world in keeping the tiranga aflutter in far-off lands. Take Hong Kong, for instance. Strikingly, Indians and persons of Indian origin do not account for a large critical mass of Hong Kong's population today. At an estimated 50,000 or so, Indians and PIOs make up less than 1% of the population of this erstwhile British colony. Nevertheless, Indians make up with their industry and business acumen for what they lack in absolute numbers, and it can be said, without risk of exaggeration, that even as far back as in the 19th century, persons of Indian origin had begun to make a distinctive mark in the emerging landscape of the ''Pearl of the Orient''. Among the earliest Indians to establish themselves in Hong Kong were those who were characterised as ''turbans and traders''. In the late 19th century, the British colonial government of Hong Kong drew on Pathans, Sikhs and Bengalis from the Indian subcontinent for the Hong Kong Regiment, and for civil administration functions. Burly, fiercely-mustachioed Sikhs were also sought out for security and constabulary duties. Equally significant was the large number of traders who set up a robust commerce network that took in southern China and Hong Kong. In fact, stone Tamil inscriptions that were discovered in Guangzhou in southern China in the mid-1950s point to a flourishing trade relationship involving merchants from south India and southern China that can be traced as far back as the 13th century! Indians and PIOs are also associated with the founding of some of Hong Kong's distinguished institutions, such as the iconic Star Ferry (which operates across the Victoria Harbour to this day) and the University of Hong Kong, one of the top centres of learning in the world today. In 1880, it was Dorabjee Naorojee, a Parsi businessman from India, who began operating the ferry service between the main Hong Kong island and Kowloon; that service later metamorphosed into the Star Ferry of today, which Likewise, it was a HK$180,000 (Rs 9 lakh at today's exchange rate) donation from Sir Hormusjee Naoroji Mody, a Mumbai-born Parsi merchant, that helped start up the University of Hong Kong in 1911. To this day, a bronze bust of Mody at the university commemorates the distinguished Parsi businessman, renowned philanthropist and benefactor of Hong Kong for over fifty years. http://parsikhabar.net/category/india/ ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India

So THAT'S where we Brits got the word 'holiday' from. Pinched it from India! Accha ... Hazel Craig

Thursday, March 20, 2008 Lahore Diary - Club Sandwich was Invented in Lawrence Garden! http://pakistanpaindabad.blogspot.com/2008/03/lahore-diary-club-sandwich-was-invented.html ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India

Seeing the message today from Dave Upshon made me wonder if anyone has ever come across RICHARD BRADLEY, the brother of my Gt.Grandmother, MARY ANNE ROGERS(formerly STEVENS,nee BRADLEY)daughter of JAMES BRADLEY and born in India(?)1838. Richards date of birth has proved very difficult to find! He is shown as an Executive Engineer,Public Works Dept.,Punjab in 1888 as the executor of the will of my other Gt.Grandmother ANNE PEMBROKE and as a god parent to my Uncle GILBERT NOEL ROGERS in 1891; an ALICE BRADLEY is also named as a God Parent and it is just possible that she was my "missing" Great Aunt ALICE ROGERS who was born in 1862. A P(?)BRADLEY is shown as a witness at the 1887 marriage in Rawalpindi of my Grandparents GEORGE JOSEPH ROGERS b.Benares 1860 d.1941 Jo'burg S.Africa and CATHERINE LOUISE BRIDGET,STACK PEMBROKE b.1865 Landour d.1939 Durban S.Africa in Rawalpindi in 1887 Any news, however vague, will help as we have been trying for many years to identify Richard life.It is just possible that he lived in Winchester UK between about 1920 & 1930. In hope Peter D Rogers, Suffolk UK in the cold.....

The infamous ''Black Hole of Calcutta'' incident - was it a fact or a myth? A recent report quite definitely suggested that it was indeed a figment of imperial imagination. However, a full-view book made recently available at Googlebooks, has a proof showing that the tragedy did take place. See ''INDIA TRACTS'' by John Zephaniah Holwell, Esq. FRS. and Friends; (1774), containing among other write-ups, an account of the events that took place on that day. It concludes with a list of names of those who died and those who survived. I'm copying out that short list here -- it may be new to some of our readers. I have retained the original spellings, but have changed the old letter ''s'' that looked like ''f'' to our modern ''s''. ''INDIA TRACTS'' by John Zephaniah Holwell 3rd edition, Revised and Corrected, with additions. LONDON: Printed, for T. Becket, Corner of the Adelphi, in the Strand. MDCCLXXIV IV. A Narrative of the deplorable Deaths of the English Gentlemen who were suffocated in the Black Hole in Fort William, at Calcutta, June 1756. (internal page Nos. 417 and 418): Quote LIST of the Smothered in the Black-Hole Prison, exclusive of Sixty-nine, (consisting of Dutch and English Serjeants (sic), Corporals, Soldiers, Topaz's (sic), Militia, Whites and Portugueze, whose Names I am unacquainted with), making on the whole, One hundred and twenty-three Persons. Of Council: E. Eyre and Wm. Baillie, Esquires, The Reverend Jervas Bellamy. Gentlemen in the Service: Messrs. Jenks, Harod, Revely, P. Johnstone, Law, Ballard, Coales, (Enf. Mil.), N. Drake, Valicourt, Carse, Jeb, Knapton, Toriano, Gosling, E. Page, Bing, S. Page, Dod, Grub, Dalrymple, Street. Military Captains: Clayton, Witherington, Buchanan. Lieutenants: Bishop, Simson, Hays, Bellamy, Blagg. Ensigns: Paccard, C. Wedderburn, Scot, Dumbleton (Enf. Mil.), Hastings. Serjeants, and Co. (Serjeants of Militia): Serjeant Major Abraham, Quarter-Master Serjeant Cartwright Bleau. Sea Captains: Hunt Osburne Purnell (survived the night, but died the next day), Messrs. Carey, Stephenson, W. Parker, Guy, Porter, Caulker, Bendall, Atkinson, Leech, &c. &c. LIST of those who Survived the Black Hole Prison: Messrs. Holwell, Court Secretary Cooke, Lushington, Burdet, Enf. Walcott, Mrs. Carey, Capt. Mills, Capt. Dickson, Mr. Moran, John Meadows, and 12 Military and Militia Blacks and Whites, some of whom recovered when the door was open. Unquote ================== ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India

G'day folks, I have no connection with the Pagoda Press. Begin forwarded message: From: Hugh Rayner <hugh.rayner@virgin.net> Date: 20 March 2008 4:29:28 AM To: PEOPLE OF INDIA MAILING LIST 1 Subject: A New Pagoda Tree Press book published : 'PEOPLE OF INDIA' Pagoda Tree Press is pleased to announce the publication of a major new book. THE PEOPLE OF INDIA A Series of Photographic Illustrations, with Descriptive Letterpress, of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan, Compiled and Edited by J. Forbes Watson & J. W. Kaye. This important work; originally commissioned by the Government of India, under the auspices of the Viceroy, Lord Canning, is one of the great photographic books of the Nineteenth Century. It was the first comprehensive pictorial and sociological study of India’s native population and was originally published in 1868, in 8 folio volumes. Lavishly illustrated, with 468 individually mounted albumen print photographs taken by many of the most talented photographers, professional and amateur, active in India at that time; it provided a stunning visual record of the multiplicity of Castes,Tribes and Trades that made up the diverse population of the sub-continent in the mid 19th century. Pagoda Tree Press have now produced a compact new edition, taken directly from a fine copy of the original work, comprising the entire text and all the 468 photographic illustrations of the original; re- typeset into a 2 volume set; ideal as a practicable reference copy of an otherwise almost unobtainable work. ISBN: 978-1904289-44-9 2 Volume A5 format, in soft covers. 478 & 508 pages, with 468 b/w illustrations. UK Price £65.00 (sixty five pounds sterling). Postage is additional, at cost * *Current Postage rates, are as follows: UK Postage: £3.85p Europe airmail postage : £8.60 Worldwide airmail postage: £16.66 Worldwide surface mail postage: £8.58 It is available directly from Pagoda Tree Press. To order your copy, please fill out the attached pdf order form and send it, together with payment, or credit card details, to: Pagoda Tree Press, 4 Malvern Buildings, Fairfield Park, Bath BA1 6JX. England Or alternatively, you can order by phone, fax or email, giving your credit/debit card details. Tel/Fax: 0044 1225 463552. Email: hughrayner@pagodatreepress.com IMPORTANT NOTE: If you are within range of London, then you can save the postage, and collect a copy in person, at the forthcoming Travel & Exploration Book fair, where I will be exhibiting a wide range of both Pagoda Tree Press books and Antiquarian Books, Maps and Photographs of India. I will also have copies available on my stand at the next London Photograph Fair; to be held held at the Bonnington Hotel, Southampton Row, London, on May 11th. 10am - 4 pm. With Best Wishes, Hugh Rayner THE TRAVEL & EXPLORATION BOOK FAIR Sunday April 6th 2008 To be held at: The Royal Geographical Society Kensington Gore London SW7 Open 11am to 5 pm. Admission: £2.00 (If you intend to come; please let me know in advance, and I can send you a complimentary ticket) Organized by The Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association. ******************************************************** Hugh Ashley Rayner Pagoda Tree Press Publisher, Printer & Retail Distributor of Books on India, The Himalayas & Tibet. UK Distributors for CBC Publishing, Harare, Zimbabwe. 4 Malvern Buildings Fairfield Park Bath BA1 6JX England Tel/Fax: 0044 1225 463552 http://www.pagodatreepress.com ooroo If you don't hear the knock of opportunity - build a door. Anon.

http://efk.ukpha.org/download-exhibition.html Empire, Faith and Kinship - Exploring 150 years of the Anglo-Sikh relationship Download Exhibition This exhibition is one strand of UKPHA's broader initiative of developing a heritage education program that embraces and supports the history and culture of the UK Punjabi community. We believe this and future initiatives will make collections and learning materials more accessible, inspiring and relevant for members of this diverse and active community. Download the exhibition panels and guidance notes in pdf format from http://www.efk.ukpha.org/download/UKPHA_AngloSikh_Exhibition.zip ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India

Just two days left before this exhibition closes on March 20, 2008. I came to know of rather late. ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India Photographic Exhibtion of GT road Thursday, 17 January 2008 Old and New: The caretaker of Coronation Park, on the outskirts of Delhi, where statues of British rulers are surrounded by wasteland. A photographic exhibition detailing the long and fascinating history of The Grand Trunk Road, linking India and Pakistan, has opened at Redbridge Museum. The exhibition, by photographer Tim Smith and oral historian Irna Qureshi, explores the longest, oldest and most well-known highway in the Asian sub-continent, through pictures, personal stories and historical background. Travelling through Delhi, India, all the way to the Khyber Pass, the photographer and historian sought out people with links to Britain, photographing and interviewing them to collect the material for the exhibition. Redbridge Punjabi Centre general secretary Jagdev Purewal said the story of the road would be of great interest to Redbridge's Asian community. He said: "This is the most important trade route from Delhi to the Khyber Pass, going up to Afghanistan." The history of the route is vast. Alexander the Great brought his armies through the Khyber Pass to northern India 2,300 years ago, and the route was also used by the Mughals who brought Islam to the sub-continent. When the British conquered India, they resurfaced the road and named it the Grand Trunk Road. When British rule ended in 1947 and British India was separated into the independent states of India and Pakistan, the largest migration in human history took place along the Grand Trunk Road. More than 14 million people attempted to cross the new borders with Hindus and Sikhs fleeing to India, while Muslims crossed into Pakistan. Vast refugee camps sprang up as people became homeless in their new country and violence was rife along the route. The Grand Trunk Road is now split into two because of the partition, with a fortified border manned by troops separating India and Pakistan and halting free passage along the ancient road. The Grand Trunk Road is a touring exhibition from Bradford Museums, Galleries and Heritage. The exhibition opened on Monday, and will run until March 20 at the museum, on the first floor of Central Library, Clements Road, Ilford. Admission is free, and the exhibition can be viewed between 10am and 5pm Monday to Friday, and 10am to 4pm on Saturdays. http://www.punjabheritage.org/material-heritage/photographic--exhibtion-of-gt-road.html

G'day Joan, On 18/03/2008, at 2:28 AM, VIEYRAJ@aol.com wrote: <<Yes, I have sent Edward an attachment concerning the 15th Hanovarian Regiment which landed in Madras in 1782 with the 78th Seaforth Highland Foot Regiment. I will be happy to send the same attachment to anyone else, if they contact me directly.>> Thanks for that msg. ooroo If you don't hear the knock of opportunity - build a door. Anon.

India always tended to stay equidistant from the two power blocs.The country enjoyed good relations with America under the Democrats like Truman. However Eisenhower's election and the return of the Republicans in 1952 brought about a change. The Dulles brothers in particular were suspicious about Nehru's socialist credentials and their biases shaped American policy.The prevailing sentiment was ,'If you're not with us, you're a Commie !' American thinkers and opinion-makers however did not take into account India's inherent stability and inclination towards multi-cultural, pluralistic democracy.A great opportunity was lost for the world's two largest democracies to come together when America enlisted Pakistan as a client state. Mandeep ----- Original Message ----- From: "Esther" <lyonsfab@optusnet.com.au> To: <india-british-raj@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 4:37 PM Subject: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Second world war > Does anyone know whether there was any inclination that if India got > independent then there was a chance of her going towards Russia and may be > becoming a communistic country? Therefore America tried to intervene and > did > best to keep India and Russia relationship at a distance. Was this a truth > or a myth? Can anyone help me with this please. Thanks > Esther > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message