Word: raj
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decline and fall of the British Empire. Slowly, painstakingly tracking its protagonists through a labyrinth of troubles, the show builds up a panoramic portrait of British India that is as levelheaded as it is evenhanded. More of an intricate tapestry than a flying carpet, Jewel dwells on the British raj in its dotage and behind its gilded scenes, at home though hardly at ease. In the process, it poignantly suggests that even the grandest of empires was made up of very small people and that no subject is more exotic than a divided heart...
...they delivered a stinging defeat to the British at the Battle of Chillianwala. After they were forced to succumb to superior British firepower six weeks later, the Sikhs became among the sturdiest and trustiest men of the British army: during the great Indian Mutiny of 1857, the raj was kept alive by their support. After the British slaughtered nearly 400 civilians, many of them Sikhs, at Amritsar in 1919, the warriors changed allegiances and joined the crusade to bring down the raj. Sikh soldiers and policemen have, to this day, loyally protected their Hindu compatriots all over India...
...villagers rebelled. They were armed with nothing but axes, sticks, scythes, eleven ancient British .303 rifles and a few muskets that had last seen use in battles against the raj. But they fought with spirited tenacity. As one patriarch remembers, "We sang songs as we fought the Communists." They demolished the government military post at nearby Khoshi and barricaded the road into Dobanday. For eight months they fought a series of bloody battles, resisting the force of gunships and armored convoys with captured machine guns, homemade grenades and Molotov cocktails...
...Pavilions, a six-hour, three-part mini-series on HBO is a sumptuous package tour of 19th century India under the British Raj. The lush, romantic travelogue leisurely wanders the flowery landscape of Victorian fiction, where swashbuckling heroes die happily for Mother England, wasp-waisted ladies in corsets palpitate at the prospect of illicit love, fawning natives in turbans plot palace intrigue, and florid, harrumphing senior officers shoulder the white man's burden. The production, based on M.M. Kaye's 1978 bestseller, represents pay cable's first real venture in "long-form" television. Filmed on location...
Parliament does not grant India Dominion status with a legal Indian Parliament before Dec. 31, 1929, then the Indian National Congress will proclaim civil resistance to the British raj (rule...