British Empire - events etc.

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  1. 2. Most famous Indian diamond now in the Queen Mother's Crown
  2. 5. Nickname for a railway in Africa from the coast to Victoria Lake (2)
  3. 7. What is the name given to the wife of a British man in India
  4. 9. Trading firm that became very powerful and wealthy from trade in India (3)
  5. 11. Where young boys were sent during the Victorian era to mould their character and become the governing class of the empire (2)
  6. 12. Trading company in Hong Kong that started business as drug traffickers to China in the 19th C (3)
  7. 14. Egypt was not a colony so what was it called when the British forces were sent in and never left.
  8. 15. What was celebrated throughout the Empire on 22 June 1897 (2)
  9. 18. Festival of Lights in India
  10. 19. Other name of the Royal Enfield motorcycle
  11. 20. Indian word for meeting between ruler and ruled, also a large ceremonial event
  12. 22. Other name for Africa in the 19th C (2)
  13. 23. Job title of the British official who governed large areas in the empire, supposedly alongside local rulers(2)
  14. 24. Another name for the First Indian War of Independence when Indian troops rose up against the British in 1857 (2)
  15. 25. sports game that would come a symbol of British suppression in Jamaica
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  1. 1. Bestseller published in 1885 about 3 British adventurers in Africa searching a lost diamond mine (3)
  2. 3. another word for rubber
  3. 4. Fertiliser from Peru that made Anthony Gibbs very rich
  4. 6. Resistance movement in Kenia whose goal was freedom from British rule (2)
  5. 8. What is the name of the treaty made by the British that offered the Jews of Europe a home in Palestine (2)
  6. 10. Poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson inspired by a pointless heroic fight in the Crimean War (6)
  7. 13. Followers of the Madhi named after their ecstatic religious dance (2)
  8. 16. Drug sold to the Chinese by the British in exchange of tea
  9. 17. Seat encrusted with jewels upon which the Mughal Emperor sat (2)
  10. 21. System of governance in the empire whereby local rulers had to work with the British who pulled the strings from behind the scene (2)
  11. 25. Calico cloth from India hand-painted or printed with wood block