1850 in India information

Events in the year 1850 in India. National income - ₹5,910 million The ceremony of turning the first sod for the Great Indian Peninsula Railway from Mumbai...

Economic Divergence, 1600–1850. p. 45. Sivramkrishna, Sashi (2009). "Ascertaining Living Standards in Erstwhile Mysore, Southern India, from Francis Buchanan's...

India's second-largest religion, with 14.2% of the country's population, or approximately 172.2 million people, identifying as adherents of Islam in a...

numbers of Baháʼís in India. The religion came to India from Iran in about 1850 and gained some converts from the Muslim population of India. The first Sikh...

United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern interests in slavery and Northern Free-Soilers. The Act...

institutions founded prior to 1850. The oldest bank in India is The Madras Bank (1843), followed by the Bank of Bengal, founded in 1806, which is then followed...

"eighteen-fifties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1850, and ended on December 31, 1859. It was a very turbulent decade, as wars...

economy through cooperation with Indian elites. From 1850 to 1947, India's gross domestic product (GDP) in 1990 international dollar terms grew from $125.7...

East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian...

from industry to agriculture in India was large; by 1850, it created nearly 1,000 square kilometres of poppy farms India's fertile Ganges plains. This...

Economic Divergence, 1600–1850. p. 45. Sivramkrishna, Sashi (2009). "Ascertaining Living Standards in Erstwhile Mysore, Southern India, from Francis Buchanan's...

Giorgio Riello, Tirthankar Roy (2009). How India Clothed the World: The World of South Asian Textiles, 1500–1850. Brill Publishers. p. 174. ISBN 9789047429975...

world, with high levels of trade, investment and migration. From 1850 to 1947, India's GDP in 1990 international dollar terms grew from $125.7 billion to $213...

Bengal, India. Established in 1850, it is one of the oldest municipalities in West Bengal and one of the oldest city administrative bodies in India. The...

in the possessions of the East India Company by the Indian Slavery Act, 1843, in French India in 1848, British India in 1861, and Portuguese India in...

caste system in India is the paradigmatic ethnographic instance of social classification based on castes. It has its origins in ancient India, and was transformed...

of their military conquest in the archipelago had stopped and their East Asian interest was shifting to Portuguese India, Portuguese Ceylon, Japan, Macau...

poppy and opium for China. By 1850, the Asian opium trade created nearly 1,000 square kilometers of poppy farms in India in its fertile Ganges plains, which...

Permanent Settlement outside of India. It started declining from 1842 and closed in 1850. It and the Bengal British India Society were merged into the British...

Anundoram Borooah (1850–1889) was an Indian lawyer and scholar of Sanskrit. He was both the first graduate and the first Indian Civil Service officer from...

and Popular Politics: Class, Resistance and the State in India, 1850–1950, (Cambridge Studies in Indian History & Society). Cambridge University Press...

Tigers in India constitute more than 70% of the global population of tigers. Tigers have been officially adopted as the National Animal of India on recommendation...

prəˈdɛʃ/, Telugu: [aːndʱrɐ prɐdeːʃ] abbr. AP) is a state in the southern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state with an area of 162,970 km2...

Tarabai Shinde (1850–1910) was a feminist activist who protested patriarchy and caste in 19th century India. She is known for her published work, Stri...

India since its independence in 1947 has been a secular state. The secular values were enshrined in the constitution of India. India's first prime minister...