Word: subcontinental
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Bombay, some time in the 1920s. Military band music. Massed cavalry. Mobs of the curious, somehow menacing in their vastness. The Viceroy and his lady are returning from England to India. As they pass through a great ceremonial arch, it fills the screen, dwarfing them and casting them, as symbols...
Night. A train bearing more modest English visitors, Adela Quested and Mrs. Moore, chuffs and hoots across the plains. They are on their way to visit the latter's son in Chandrapore, where he serves the British raj as city magistrate. Adela, plain but secretly a spirited young woman, contemplates...
The show's occasional violence is all the more harrowing because so much of the action consists of nothing more than long dialogues in frumpy British parlors. Indeed, the series captures wonderfully an India so housebroken that it has come to resemble a dowdy British institution. Instead of the...
Carpet knotting was introduced to India in the 15th century. The weaver's art took root and quickly spread through the subcontinent. Masterpieces from Indian looms decorated the palaces of Mughal emperors but remained obscure to the West until the 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition in London. The result: a...
India's modern military tradition begins, somewhat ironically, after the mid-nineteenth century British conquest of the subcontinent. Before the Imperial era the various Indian nations maintained essentially feudal, personal armies. Each prince, oligarch king, or head of state led armed forces with personal allegiance to, and often clan relationships...