The “screw pine” at the Horticultural Gardens in Madras refers to Pandanus species (often Pandanus utilis / Pandanus odorifer), striking monocot trees with spiralling leaves and stilt‑like aerial roots that were prized as ornamental and economic
When NWFP [now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa] was created in 1901, a legal framework (NWFP Law and Justice Regulation VII) was enacted to set up judicial institutions for the new province under a Judicial Commissioner, placing the province’s highest judicial
[Original] This city built by the Emperor Shahjahan in 1627 A.D. [end]
Cherat hill’s position gave commanding views over the Peshawar valley and toward Kohat/Indus, which made it strategically useful as well as climatically attractive to colonists.
Maharaja’s College, Mysore is one of the oldest and most influential centres of higher education in southern India, closely tied to the making of the University of Mysore and to the Wadiyar dynasty’s education policy.
Indian workers were brought over by the British to the West Indian island of Jamaica between 1845 and 1917. Roughly 37,000 people were brought over under an indentured labor system, where they had to work on mostly sugar estates, where strict
Upper Topa in the Murree Hills was established by the British during colonial rule as a military base, and today hosts the Military College Murree at an altitude of over 2,000 metres.
The Black Hole of Calcutta was made famous by an account written by John Hollwell, now disputed.
In 1756, the Nawab of Bengal, Siraj-ud-daulah captured Fort William and took a number of European prisoners who were unable to escape.
Howard Woody, a pioneer researcher of early German printing postcard technologies writes of this postcard that the collotype’s “light hues accent the woman’s layered costumer and create an attractive luminous image that contrasts with the muted
Udaipur is home so many beautiful lakes and often called the "Venice of the East."
The Lake Palace, also called Jag Niwas or Jagmunda Palace, is the biggest tourist attraction in Udaipur and was constructed by Maharana Jagat Singh II in the mid-18th
