Sentence examples for imperial subjects from inspiring English sources

For the Mari, in other words, the experience of being Russian imperial subjects has been remarkably consistent through the centuries.

His father came from Bangladesh in 1963, part of a great migration of former imperial subjects from the Indian subcontinent invited to toil in Britain's factories.

Powell had been the fiercest critic of the 1948 Nationality Act, which gave all imperial subjects the right of entry into Britain.

Before the American Revolution, the people who lived in British North America were not just colonists; they were also imperial subjects.

Treating the locals as little more than imperial subjects, the company, partly owned by the British government, expanded across the region, its fortunes intertwined with those of the British Empire.

Instead, he argued, she took an active role in drafting the 1858 proclamation bringing India under Crown control, restoring religious freedom and guaranteeing its inhabitants the same rights as other imperial subjects.

Although she carried a passport of an imperial subject, she had no innate loyalty to Britain.

Even if he was recognized by the Transylvanian diet as only imperial governor subject to the Holy Roman Emperor, he was nonetheless ruler of Transylvania.

The Swiss had attained the status of imperial immediacy, being subject only to the emperor himself, and not to any intermediate Princes or liege lords.

And while Mr. Said revealed just how powerful fantasies about other cultures can be, he was also exerting his own variety of imperial power over his subject matter, limiting its geographical and scholarly range to suit his own vision of how the imperial West worked.

This contrasted with the attitude taken by at least a section of the imperial administration towards their subjects in Calcutta and Bombay.