British Viceroys

A plea was filed in the Delhi High Court on Thursday seeking to direct the Centre to change the call sign 'VT' on Indian aircraft, saying that the prefix stands for Victorian Territory and Viceroy Territory which is a legacy of the British Raj.

A diamond bracelet and jewelled decorative elephants from Jaipur are some of the Indian heirlooms that have made it a collection of 350 personal items belonging to Patricia Mountbatten, the eldest daughter of Lord Louis Mountbatten - the last Viceroy of India - that fetched over 5.6 million British pound at an auction in London.

Challenging the high court verdict that ruled Delhi's Lieutenant Governor, or LG, was the national capital's administrative boss, the Supreme Court today heard senior Congress leader P Chidambaram argue that the LG isn't the Viceroy of the British Crown that he had been made out to be but only the President's representative with a much narrower man...

The trailer of Huma Qureshi's movie Partition: 1947 was unveiled by the makers of the film today. The two-and-a-half minute trailer shows how Lord Mountbatten (played by Hugh Bonneville), the last Viceroy of India, has to oversee the transition of British India to independence

President Pranab Mukherjee has said that he had no knowledge about how Rashtrapati Bhavan functioned till he assumed office and had even sent his daughter to the palatial building two days before he took oath to get an idea.

What does 'VT' stand for in the registration number of an Indian aircraft? It is 'Viceroy Territory', a legacy of the British Raj.

The film stars English actor Hugh Bonneville as Lord Mounbatten - the last Viceroy of British India, Gillian Anderson, veteran Indian actor Om Puri and Gangs of Wasseypur actress Huma Qureshi. The film is based on events which took place during the partition of India

The Andaman and Nicobar Islands administration has taken up a project to preserve the heritage sites of Viper island, which had been used by the British as an open jail for convicts and freedom fighters prior to construction of the Cellular jail.

India's monument to love, the Taj Mahal, was once even more romantic, cloaked behind towering foliage and only shyly revealing its contours as the visitor approached - until a British viceroy removed the mystery.

A plea was filed in the Delhi High Court on Thursday seeking to direct the Centre to change the call sign 'VT' on Indian aircraft, saying that the prefix stands for Victorian Territory and Viceroy Territory which is a legacy of the British Raj.

A diamond bracelet and jewelled decorative elephants from Jaipur are some of the Indian heirlooms that have made it a collection of 350 personal items belonging to Patricia Mountbatten, the eldest daughter of Lord Louis Mountbatten - the last Viceroy of India - that fetched over 5.6 million British pound at an auction in London.

Challenging the high court verdict that ruled Delhi's Lieutenant Governor, or LG, was the national capital's administrative boss, the Supreme Court today heard senior Congress leader P Chidambaram argue that the LG isn't the Viceroy of the British Crown that he had been made out to be but only the President's representative with a much narrower man...

The trailer of Huma Qureshi's movie Partition: 1947 was unveiled by the makers of the film today. The two-and-a-half minute trailer shows how Lord Mountbatten (played by Hugh Bonneville), the last Viceroy of India, has to oversee the transition of British India to independence

President Pranab Mukherjee has said that he had no knowledge about how Rashtrapati Bhavan functioned till he assumed office and had even sent his daughter to the palatial building two days before he took oath to get an idea.

What does 'VT' stand for in the registration number of an Indian aircraft? It is 'Viceroy Territory', a legacy of the British Raj.

The film stars English actor Hugh Bonneville as Lord Mounbatten - the last Viceroy of British India, Gillian Anderson, veteran Indian actor Om Puri and Gangs of Wasseypur actress Huma Qureshi. The film is based on events which took place during the partition of India

The Andaman and Nicobar Islands administration has taken up a project to preserve the heritage sites of Viper island, which had been used by the British as an open jail for convicts and freedom fighters prior to construction of the Cellular jail.

India's monument to love, the Taj Mahal, was once even more romantic, cloaked behind towering foliage and only shyly revealing its contours as the visitor approached - until a British viceroy removed the mystery.