His tenure has been under a cloud ever since a scandal erupted over charges that various employees in the Murdoch media empire in the UK hacked into phones belonging to families of murder victims, terror victims, police and politicians.
Economically, India was a growing industrial power which by 1935 had a positive balance of trade with UK. Militarily, the British Empire depended badly upon the large and powerful Indian Army, particularly as Japanese advanced through Asia.
Polly Peck was Mr Nadir's multi-billion-pound trading empire which stretched from the UK to Turkey.
"Sean Quinn paid his taxes to the UK government, he has a national insurance number in the UK, all of his tax returns in the last 38 years have been in the UK, and crucially he ran his business empire from Derrylin, " he said.
Brooks later became chief executive of News International, a UK subsidiary of Murdoch's News Corp. empire.
Chris Goodall, an analyst at the media research firm Enders Analysis, said the News of the World was the "sacrificial lamb being taken out into the desert and killed" in order to try to save the Murdoch empire's bid to take over UK broadcaster BSkyB.
There is no use demonising countries such as the UK, which stole many such items during the days of the Empire, as that was standard practice in those days.
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Murdoch's international newspaper empire includes the New York Post, the News International stable of UK titles including the Sun and the Times, and a cluster of Australian papers including the Daily Telegraph and the Herald Sun.
The original Star Wars film, released in the UK in 1977, starred Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford as they took on the evil Empire "in a galaxy, far, far away".
As a result, Murdoch built a phenomenally powerful media empire and wielded power so great that it could only be acknowledged surreptitiously -- in the UK, quite literally, through the back door of Downing Street.
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