district of British India

C13599
concept

A district of British India was an administrative subdivision governed by colonial authorities, typically comprising multiple towns and villages, used for managing revenue collection, law and order, and local governance under the British Raj.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
district of British India canonical 2
British Indian administrative subdivision 1
administrative division of British India 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: district of British India
Generated description
A district of British India was an administrative subdivision governed by colonial authorities, typically comprising multiple towns and villages, used for managing revenue collection, law and order, and local governance under the British Raj.

Instances (5)

Instance Via concept surface
Poil village, Sylhet District, Bengal Presidency, British India
surface form: Bengal Presidency
administrative division of British India
Malwa Agency British Indian administrative subdivision
Thar and Parkar District
Prome District (historical) district of British Burma
Bakerganj District