British India

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British India was the vast territory on the Indian subcontinent administered by the British Crown and its agents from the 18th to mid-20th century, forming the core of the British Empire in Asia.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf British colony
colonial possession
former country
territory in Asia
administrativeDivision directly ruled British provinces
princely states under indirect rule
alsoKnownAs British Raj
Indian Empire
borderedBy Afghanistan
Arabian Sea
Bay of Bengal
China
Persian Gulf (via Aden connections)
Tibet
capital Calcutta
New Delhi
capitalFrom Calcutta 1858
New Delhi 1911
capitalTo Calcutta 1911
New Delhi 1947
continent Asia
country India
currency Indian rupee
demographicFeature religiously diverse population
dissolutionCause Indian Independence Act 1947
economicFeature major exporter of jute
major exporter of opium (19th century)
major exporter of raw cotton
major exporter of tea
economicPolicy Mahalwari system in some regions
Ryotwari system in some regions
imperial preference and free trade with Britain
land revenue settlements such as Permanent Settlement
endDate 1947
flag Union Jack (official colonial flag)
followedBy Dominion of India
Dominion of Pakistan
governmentType colonial administration under British Crown
headOfGovernment Viceroy of India
headOfState Monarch of the United Kingdom
includedTerritory Aden (until 1937, administratively linked)
Ajmer-Merwara
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Assam
Baluchistan (Chief Commissioner's Province)
Bengal
Bombay Presidency
Burma (until 1937)
Central Provinces
Delhi
Laccadive Islands (Lakshadweep)
Madras Presidency
North-West Frontier Province
Oudh
Punjab
Sind
United Provinces
princely states under British suzerainty
independenceMovementLeader Annie Besant
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Bhagat Singh
Jawaharlal Nehru
Lala Lajpat Rai
Mahatma Gandhi
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Subhas Chandra Bose
introducedInstitution Indian Civil Service
Indian Police Service (colonial predecessor)
modern postal system in India
modern university system in India
railway network in India
unified Indian Army under British command
legalInstrumentCreating Government of India Act 1858
legalSystem common law
majorReligions Buddhism
Christianity
Hinduism
Islam
Jainism
Sikhism
notableEvent Civil Disobedience Movement
Government of India Act 1919
Government of India Act 1935
Indian Rebellion of 1857
Jallianwala Bagh massacre 1919
Non-Cooperation Movement
Partition of Bengal 1905
Quit India Movement
World War I participation
World War II participation
partition of British India 1947
officialLanguage English
Hindustani (in practice, alongside regional languages)
partOf British Empire
precededBy Company rule in India
Mughal Empire (in much of the territory)
region Indian subcontinent
separatedTerritory Burma separated in 1937
startDate 1858
successorState Islamic Republic of Pakistan
People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan)
Republic of India
symbol Star of India
titleOfMonarch Emperor of India
Empress of India

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4th Indian Division
77th Indian Infantry Brigade
Advocate General of Madras
Ajmer-Merwara
All India Muslim League
Auxiliary Force (India)
Baluchistan (Chief Commissioner's Province)
Banga, Punjab, British India
Battle of Imphal
Bengal Army
Bengal Presidency
Bengali Renaissance
Bihar and Orissa Province
Bombay Army
Bombay Legislative Council
Bombay Presidency
British Indian Army ("British Raj")
British Indian Army 6th (Poona) Division
British Sind
Burma (until 1937)
Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress (1920)
Central Legislative Assembly bombing
Central Provinces
Chamber of Princes
Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces
Commander-in-Chief, Bengal
Commander-in-Chief, India
Commander-in-Chief, Madras Army
Cornwallis Code
Council of State (British India)
Council of the Governor-General
Dayanand Anglo-Vedic College, Lahore
Delhi Durbar
Delhi Durbar of 1877
Delhi Durbar of 1903
Delhi Durbar of 1911
Delhi Durbar of 1911
Etawah, North-Western Provinces, British India
Gaekwad of Baroda
Gandhi–Irwin Pact
Governor of the Central Provinces and Berar
Governor-General of Bengal
Governor’s Council of Bombay Presidency
Great Seal of the Realm (Indian version)
Great Trigonometrical Survey of India
Gwalior State
Gwalior State
High Commissioner for India in London
Hyderabad State
Imperial Legislative Council of India
Indian Army engineer units
Indian Civil Service
Indian Civil Service
Indian Expeditionary Force D
Indian Medical Service
Indian Rebellion of 1857
Indian Signal Corps
Indian State Forces
Indian Territorial Force
Indian mountain artillery units
Indianization of the officer corps (interwar period)
Jallianwala Bagh massacre
Kalat Agency
Kartarpur Gurdwara reform movement
Kathiawar Agency
Kitchener reforms of the Indian Army (1903–1909)
Lahore Central Jail, Lahore, British India
Lahore Conspiracy Case
Ledo Road
Legislative Assembly (British India)
Legislative Assembly of the United Provinces
Legislative Council of the United Provinces
Long Range Penetration Groups
Madras Army
Madras Legislative Council
Madras Presidency
Madras Time
Montford Reforms
Morley–Minto Reforms
Nagpur session of the Indian National Congress (1920)
Newalkar dynasty
North-Western Provinces
Operation Dracula
Partition of Bengal 1905
Porbandar State
Princely State of Porbandar
Rajputana Agency
Rana of Porbandar
Reorganization of the Indian Army during World War II
Rowlatt Act
Rowlatt Satyagraha
Royal Indian Navy mutiny
Siege of Cawnpore
Siege of Delhi
Sind Province (Pakistan)
Thar and Parkar District
United Provinces
United Provinces of Agra and Oudh
Viceroy of India
country
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Barindra Kumar Ghosh
Bhagat Singh
C. R. Das
C. Rajagopalachari
C. V. Raman
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Hafeez Jalandhari
Hastings Ismay
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jibanananda Das
Kasturba Gandhi
Lata Mangeshkar
Lord Roberts
Manilal Gandhi
Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan
Motilal Nehru
Nabaneeta Dev Sen
Nathuram Godse
Nathuram Godse
Nathuram Godse
R. H. Tawney
R. Venkataraman
Rabindranath Tagore
Ram Manohar Lohia
Rattanbai Jinnah
Reginald Dyer
Reginald Warneford
Rudyard Kipling
Salman Rushdie
Sam Manekshaw
Sarojini Naidu
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Satyajit Ray
Satyendra Nath Bose
Satyendra Nath Bose
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Swami Vivekananda
T. H. White
Vinoba Bhave
Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar
Vivien Leigh
placeOfBirth
Allama Muhammad Iqbal
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Bhagat Singh
Bipin Chandra Pal
C. R. Das
C. V. Raman
Chimanlal Harilal Setalvad
Dadabhai Naoroji
Debendranath Tagore
Dinshaw Edulji Wacha
Dwijendranath Tagore
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Harilal Gandhi
Iskander Mirza
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jhaverba Patel
Jyotirindranath Tagore
Karamchand Gandhi
Lala Lajpat Rai
Liaquat Ali Khan
Mahatma Gandhi
Michael Madhusudan Dutt
Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan
Motilal Nehru
Rattanbai Jinnah
Reginald Dyer
Sarada Devi
Satyendranath Tagore
Surendranath Banerjee
countryOfCitizenship
Act of the Imperial Legislative Council
Act of the Imperial Legislative Council ("British Indian Empire")
Board of Control
Charter Act 1793
Commander-in-Chief, India ("British Raj")
Cornwallis Code
Court of Directors
Emperor of India ("British Raj")
Government of India Act 1919
Governor of Bombay
Great Seal of the Realm (Indian version) ("British Raj")
Hunter Commission
Imperial Legislative Council of India
India Act 1784
India Office
Indian Civil Service ("British Raj")
Indian Civil Service
Indian Councils Act 1861
Indian Medical Service ("British Raj")
Knight Grand Commander ("British Raj")
Morley–Minto Reforms
Partition of Assam
Secretary of State for India
Secretary of State for India ("British Indian Empire")
Simon Commission
Star of India
Under-Secretary of State for India
appliesToJurisdiction
Aden Protectorate ("British Raj")
Ajmer-Merwara ("British Raj")
Ajmer-Merwara ("British Indian Empire")
Baluchistan (Chief Commissioner's Province) ("British Indian Empire")
Bihar and Orissa Province ("British Raj")
Bombay Presidency ("British Raj")
British Malaya ("British colonial empire in Asia")
Burma (until 1937)
Central Provinces ("British Raj")
Governor of Bombay ("British Raj")
Governor of the Central Provinces and Berar ("British Raj")
Governor’s Council of Bombay Presidency ("British Raj")
Imperial Legislative Council of India ("British Raj")
Indian Civil Service ("Government of India (British Raj)")
Madras Presidency ("British Raj")
Merwara region
North-West Frontier campaigns ("British rule in India")
Odisha (parts)
Oudh
Rajputana Agency ("British Raj")
Sind
Sind Province (Pakistan) ("British Indian provinces")
Travancore
Unfederated Malay States ("British colonial empire in Asia")
United Provinces ("British Raj")
United Provinces of Agra and Oudh ("British Raj")
partOf
Advocate General of Madras ("British Raj")
Aga Khan Palace ("British Raj")
Bombay Island ("British Raj")
Bombay Legislative Council ("British Raj")
Charter Act 1853 ("British Raj (pre-1858 Company rule phase)")
Commander-in-Chief, Madras Army ("British Raj")
Council of India ("British Raj")
Emperor of India ("British rule in India")
Indian Civil Service ("British Raj")
Kesari (Marathi newspaper) ("British Raj")
Kheda Satyagraha ("British Raj")
Lahore Central Jail, Lahore, British India ("British Raj")
Maharaja ("British Raj")
Mangal Pandey ("British Raj in India")
Morley–Minto Reforms ("British Raj")
Nana Sahib ("British Raj")
Odisha (parts) ("British Raj")
Petit family ("British Raj")
Sachindra Nath Sanyal
Secretary of State for India ("British Raj")
Star of India ("British Raj")
Ullaskar Dutta ("British Raj")
Viceroy of India ("British Raj")
historicalPeriod
Allama Muhammad Iqbal
Augustus De Morgan
B. R. Ambedkar
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
Chandrasekhar Azad
Dadabhai Naoroji
Debendranath Tagore
Fazlur Rahman Khan
Guy Gibson
Indira Gandhi
Kazi Nazrul Islam
P. L. Deshpande
Rajiv Gandhi
Sri Aurobindo
Subhas Chandra Bose
Surendranath Banerjee
Udham Singh
birthPlace
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
Barindra Kumar Ghosh
Dina Wadia
Jamsetji Tata
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Satyendra Nath Bose
Swarup Rani Thussu
Udham Singh
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
citizenship
Ajmer-Merwara ("British colonial period")
Baluchistan (Chief Commissioner's Province) ("British colonial period")
Begum Hazrat Mahal ("British Raj (early period)")
Fort William, Kolkata ("British colonial period in India")
Government House, Calcutta ("British Raj")
Jaitpur ("British Raj")
Lahore ("British Raj")
Multan ("British Raj period")
Porbandar State ("British Raj")
Princely State of Porbandar ("British Raj")
Tagore family ("British Raj")
historicalEra
Annie Besant
Bhagat Singh
C. R. Das
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
John Nicholson
Kasturba Gandhi
Motilal Nehru
Rabindranath Tagore
Rattanbai Jinnah
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Wajid Ali Shah
placeOfDeath
Battle of El Alamein ("India")
Battle of Gallipoli
Battle of Gazala ("India (British India)")
Battle of Hong Kong
Dutch East Indies campaign
Gallipoli Peninsula
Mediterranean theatre of World War I
Pacific War
Salween offensive
Sinai and Palestine campaign
belligerent
Baghat
Baluchistan (Chief Commissioner's Province) ("British Raj")
Chauri Chaura incident
Etawah, North-Western Provinces, British India
Indian National Congress movement
Indian princely states
Lahore Conspiracy Case ("India under British rule")
Legislative Assembly of the United Provinces
Sind Province (Pakistan) ("British Raj")
Sind Province (Pakistan) ("Indian Empire")
locatedIn
August Kranti
Barrackpore incident of 1857
Direct Action Day
Home Rule movement
Indian independence movement
Jallianwala Bagh massacre 1919
Kitchener reforms of the Indian Army (1903–1909)
Non-Cooperation Movement
Partition of India
Quit India movement
location
Allan Octavian Hume ("British Raj")
Bombay Castle ("British Raj")
Fort St. George ("British Raj")
GCSI
Imperial Crown of India ("British Raj")
Jam Sahib ("British Raj")
John Company ("British Raj")
KCSI
Most Exalted Order of the Star of India ("British Raj")
associatedWith
Allama Muhammad Iqbal
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
Chandrasekhar Azad
Debendranath Tagore
Mangal Pandey
Mirza Ghalib
deathPlace
Government of India Act 1858
India Office ("British Raj")
KCSI ("British Raj")
Lahore Conspiracy Case
Lord William Hunter
Secretary of State for India ("British Raj")
Sidney Rowlatt
jurisdiction
August 1917 Montagu Declaration
British Indian law
Charter Act 1813
Ottawa Agreements ("India (British India)")
Royal Titles Act 1876
appliesTo
Battle of Ctesiphon (1915)
Capture of Baghdad (1917)
China Burma India Theater
Operation Capital
Western Front (World War I)
countryInvolved
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Partha Dasgupta
Reginald Dyer
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
countryOfBirth
August Kranti ("British Raj")
Batukeshwar Dutt ("British Raj")
Civil Disobedience Movement ("British Raj")
Indian independence movement ("British Raj")
Kunwar Singh ("British colonial government in India")
opponent
Barindra Kumar Ghosh ("British Raj")
Indulal Yagnik ("British Raj")
John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence ("British Raj")
Sevagram Ashram ("British Raj")
era
Jaitpur
Maratha Empire ("British Raj")
Mughal dynasty ("British Raj")
Sikh Empire ("British Raj")
followedBy
Azad Hind Government
Bombay Army ("British Raj")
Champaran Satyagraha
Treaty of Salbai
historicalRegion
Azad Hind Government ("British Raj")
Indian National Army ("British Raj")
Indian independence movement ("British colonial rule in India")
Kheda Satyagraha ("British colonial government in India")
opposedTo
Burma (until 1937) ("British Raj")
Odisha (parts)
Telangana (parts)
administeredBy
Sam Manekshaw
W. D. A. Lentaigne
allegiance
British India ("British Raj")
British India ("Indian Empire")
alsoKnownAs
Indians in South Africa
Indo-Mauritians
ancestralOrigin
Charter Act 1833
Council of India
appliesToTerritory
Lal-Bal-Pal trio
Special Force
basedIn
Dhudike, Punjab, British India
Jallianwala Bagh massacre 1919 ("British Raj")
countryAtTheTime
Battle of Khadki
Direct Action Day
countryAtTime
Jam Sahib
Rana of Porbandar ("British Raj")
countryDuringUse
Act of the Imperial Legislative Council
Ahmadiyya
countryOfOrigin
Mahratta (English newspaper)
Stray Feathers
countryOfPublication
Charles Cornwallis
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
deathCountry
Indian Civil Service ("Government of India (British Raj)")
Michael O’Dwyer ("British Raj")
employer
Bishop Cotton School, Shimla ("British Raj")
Deccan Education Society ("British Raj")
foundedDuring
All India Muslim League
Indian National Congress
foundedIn
Indian Army engineer units
Indian Signal Corps
garrison
Age of Imperialism ("British Raj in India")
British Empire ("British Raj")
hasPart
England’s Debt to India ("British Raj")
India as I Knew It ("British Raj")
historicalContext
Hazara ("British Raj")
Orissa ("British Raj")
historicallyRuledBy
Emperor of India ("British Raj")
Emperor of India
linkedTo
British India Command
Indian Medical Service
operatedIn
Iraq campaign (1941)
Swadeshi movement ("British Raj")
opposedBy
Hindustan Socialist Republican Army
activeIn
Ajmer-Merwara ("Government of India (British Raj)")
administeredDirectly
Aden (until 1937, administratively linked)
administrativelyLinkedTo
Lahore Resolution
adoptedIn
Charter Act 1853
appliedIn
Lord Wavell ("British Raj")
areaOfActivity
Edwin Samuel Montagu
areaOfInfluence
The Butcher of Amritsar
associatedCountry
Punjab Kesari
associatedWithRegion
Emirate of Afghanistan
borderedBy
Sansad Bhavan ("British Raj")
builtDuring
Calcutta
capitalOf
Simon Commission ("History of British India")
category
Indulal Yagnik
citizenshipDuringActivism
Kamala Nehru
citizenshipDuringLifetime
Puducherry (parts) ("British Raj")
colonialEra
Mandalay Prison ("British Raj")
colonialPower
Champaran ("British Raj")
colonialPowerInvolved
Shaheed Diwas (Martyrs' Day) on 23 March in India ("British Raj")
commemoratedFiguresOpposed
Damodar Rao
countryAtBirth
Partition of India
countryDivided
Dinapore
countryDuringPeriod
Allied Powers of World War I
countryMember
Reginald Dyer
countryOfEvent
Government of India Act 1935
countryOfJurisdiction
Unhappy India ("British Raj")
criticizes
Afghanistan–Pakistan border
definedBetween
Sukkur Barrage ("British Raj")
designedDuring
Radcliffe Line
dividedFormerEntity
Doctrine of Lapse ("British Indian administration")
domain
Indian Independence Act 1947
endedColonialRuleOver
High Commissioner for India in London
establishedFor
Kathiawar Agency ("British Raj")
existedDuring
United Provinces of Agra and Oudh ("British Raj")
flagUsedBy
Oude
formerAdministrativeUnitOf
Government Law College, Mumbai
foundedInColonialEra
University of Calcutta ("British Raj")
foundedInPeriod
Aden (until 1937, administratively linked)
governedAsPartOf
Chauri Chaura incident ("British Raj")
governingAuthorityAtTime
Kingdom of Great Britain
hadColony
Great Seal of the Realm (Indian version) ("British Raj period")
hasUsePeriod
Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David
headOfStateOf
Abbottabad
historicalAffiliation
Puducherry (parts)
historicallyUnder
GCSI ("British Raj")
historicalPeriodOfUse
Punjab ("British Raj")
historicalRuler
Partition of Bengal 1905 ("British colonial government in India")
implementedBy
British salt monopoly
implementedIn
Ambala Central Jail ("British colonial period")
inception
Constituent Assembly of India ("British Indian provinces")
includedRepresentativesFrom
British India ("North-West Frontier Province")
includedTerritory
Asia (colonial possessions)
includes
Kellogg–Briand Pact ("India (British India)")
initialSignatory
First Anglo-Mysore War
involvedPolity
Shahjahanabad ("British Raj")
laterRuler
Kumbakonam, Madras Presidency, British India
locatedInCountry
Umarkot
locatedInFormerEntity
Servants of the People Society
locationOfFormation
South-East Asian theatre of World War II
mainAlliedPower
Anglo-Afghan Wars ("British Raj")
mainBelligerent
Gandhi–Irwin Pact ("British Government in India")
mainParticipants
The History of British India ("British rule in India")
mainSubject
High Commissioner for India in London ("British Indian administration")
mediatesBetween
Edward VIII
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Order of the Indian Empire ("Indian Empire")
namedAfter
CBI Theater
notableAlliedNation
Sachindra Nath Sanyal ("British Raj")
opposedOrganization

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