Not content with this, he learnt Persian and Hindostanee; and thus when he went to India in 1823 he was equipped as few young men of his day were.

If there ever was a fear of serious trouble in India the advance of General Maude in Mesopotamia dispelled it, and made it easier not only to release a portion of our white garrison in India for active service elsewhere, but to recruit a large force of Indians for the Empire's work in other climes.

Clive added India to the British demesne.

To Portuguese navigators the way to India by this route was soon made clear.

The 75th Division had brought some of the Wessex Territorials from India with two battalions of Gurkhas and two of Rifles.

Think of their ancient religious philosophytheir doctrine of world-unityabsolutely foundational and inexpugnable, the corner-stone of all metaphysics, science, and politics, and of the latest most modern democracy; and still realized and believed in in India as nowhere else in the world.

In my opinion, the best way to prevent India from becoming the battle ground between the forces of Islam and those of the English is for Hindus to make non-co-operation a complete and immediate success, and I have little doubt that if the Mahomedans remain true to their declared intention and are able to exercise self-restraint, and make sacrifices the Hindus will "play the game" and join them in the campaign of non-co-operation.

They were summoned from Serampore to Calcutta, and there formally commanded, in the name of the Company, to leave India at once and return to America.

He is watching the non-co-operation movement from the Kotgarh hills where he is living in isolation from the India of the plains and serving the hillmen.

At one time he started for India on the invitation of a great Southern Prince, who sent a vessel to meet him on the way, but the hardships of the sea were too severe for him, and he made his way back to Shiraz without finishing his journey.

General Havelock was a Queen's officer of forty years' standing; but he had seen more service in India than perhaps any other officer in Her Majesty's Army.

It will, it is to be hoped, prove successful; and these important works will remain an enduring monument of the benefits conferred on India during the present reign.

And though she couldn't help feeling rather glad that Jerrold had gone to India without Anne, she was sorry for her.

With its fall the war will be virtually ended,for the reconquest of the disturbed territories will be a matter of little difficulty, when undertaken with the aid of the twenty thousand English troops who will arrive in India before the end of the year.

Today, there are petty princes in East India under Dutch sovereignty who decorate themselves with the title of Khalîf, without suspecting that they are thereby guilty of a sort of arrogant blasphemy.

It reveals what has been done with regard to the Batta question, and the news may possibly reach India through the press before the Government obtain it.

He had just returned to India after commanding a division in the Persian War.

[Footnote 1: In the other editions this part of the sentence reads, "concerning the islands of India beyond the Ganges, recently discovered.

And as I propose, if the necessity arose, to ask the door-keepers of the Government to dissociate themselves from an unjust Government I propose now to address, an appeal to the Judges and the Executive Councillors to join the protest that is rising from all over India against the double wrong done to India, on the Khilafat and the Punjab question.

That nothing but a long continuance of strict rule could bring India into real subjection.

The province of Bengala borders on India towards the south, and was subdued by the great khan, while I Marco Polo resided in the eastern countries.

Hinduism was for a time submerged, but never drowned, by the tide of Mahometan conquest, which set steadily toward India about A.D. 1000.

I don't believe there's a tiger in India outside the Zoo.

It lays down in the broadest way possible the desire of Parliament that there should be no difference in appointing to offices in India between one race and another, and the covering despatch written by that memorable man, James Mill, wound up by saying that "For the future, fitness is to be the criterion of eligibility.

All of the important strategical points and military cantonments can be reached promptly, as necessity requires, and in case of a rebellion troops could be poured into any particular point from the farthermost limits of India within three or four days.