Subdivisions of British India
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Overview of the administrative divisions of British India
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| Colonial India Map of colonial India, distributed by the British Information Services (1942) |
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Austrian India 1778–1785 Swedish India 1733–1733 Dutch India 1605–1825 Danish India 1620–1869 French India 1668–1954 |
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Casa da Índia 1434–1833 Portuguese East India Company 1628–1633 |
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EIC in India 1600–1757 Company rule in India 1757–1858 British rule in Portuguese India 1797–1813 British Raj in India 1858–1947 British rule in Burma 1824–1948 Princely states 1721–1949 Partition of India 1947 |
For administrative purposes, British India was divided into the following administrative divisions:
Main administrative divisions
[edit ]- Provinces of British India
- Presidencies of British India
- Divisions of British India
- Districts of British India
Political units
[edit ]While British India did administratively not include the princely states, which remained nominally outside the British Raj,[1] under the administration of their own rulers, the relationship of the British with these states was managed by:
Still, the British authorities recurred to the doctrine of lapse when they decided to interfere in the internal matters of a princely state.[2]
See also
[edit ]References
[edit ]- ^ Great Britain India Office. The Imperial Gazetteer of India . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908.
- ^ William Cooke Taylor, A Popular History of British India
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