BritishIndia was divided into the following administrative divisions: Provinces ofBritishIndia Presidencies ofBritishIndia Divisions ofBritish India...
Presidencies and provinces ofBritishIndiaSubdivisionsofBritishIndia Territorial evolution of the British Empire Imperial Gazetteer ofIndia. Published under...
Partition ofIndia in 1947 was the change of political borders and the division of other assets that accompanied the dissolution of the British Raj in the...
Districts ofBritishIndia were administrative units of the Government of the British Raj or Indian Empire. Districts were generally subdivisionsof the provinces...
The British Raj (/rɑːdʒ/ RAHJ; from Hindi rāj, 'kingdom', 'realm', 'state', or 'empire') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent;...
The United Provinces of Agra and Oudh was a province ofIndia under the British Raj, which existed from 22 March 1902 to 1937; the official name was shortened...
bodies exist instead of these rural subdivisions. The diagram below outlines the six tiers of administrative divisions: The states ofIndia have been grouped...
was a province ofBritishIndia. It comprised British conquests from the Mughals and Marathas in central India, and covered parts of present-day Madhya...
present-day state of Assam and its predecessor Undivided Assam was colonized by the East India Company and the British Raj over a period of 150 years—beginning...
of India and the British Government in London. In the 1920s, the British Government's desire to create an alternative air route from Great Britain to...
Berar was a province ofBritishIndia and later the Dominion ofIndia which existed from 1903 to 1950. It was formed by the merger of the Central Provinces...
was a division ofBritishIndia's Madras Presidency. It consisted of a narrow slip of territory lying along the western side of the Bay of Bengal from 15°...
and Including 'Natives ofIndia': Early-Nineteenth-Century British-Indian Race Relations in Britain". Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the...
period in the history of Assam between the signing of the Treaty of Yandabo and the Independence ofIndia when Assam was under British colonial rule. The...
warrior castes of Bhagalpur in modern-day India. The legendary raja Bijoy Giri (c. 1630), who is believed to have migrated the ancestors of the Chakma people...
administrative unit ofBritishIndia with Calcutta as the capital of both Bengal and India until 1911. As a result of the first partition of Bengal, a short-lived...
in northern India that was ruled by the British East India Company from 1805 to 1834; it corresponded approximately—in present-day India—to all regions...
region ofBritishIndia, located in the central part of present-day Madhya Pradesh state in central India. It included the present-day districts of Sagar...
region ofIndia that became the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh under the British Raj. Tulsipur also extended north beyond Dundwa Range of the Siwaliks...
in ending British rule. In 1947 the British Indian Empire was partitioned into two independent dominions, a Hindu-majority Dominion ofIndia and a Muslim-majority...
and Orissa was a province ofBritishIndia, which included the present-day Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand, and parts of Odisha. The territories were...
defence of both BritishIndia and the princely states, which could also have their own armies. As quoted in the Imperial Gazetteer ofIndia, "The British Government...
chieftains claim descent from Tabinshwehti and Nanda Bayin of the Toungoo Empire. During British rule, the Chittagong Hill Tracts were administratively divided...
Circle dates to 1782 with the first chieftain, Mrachai. During British rule, the British authorities designated the Mong Circle in 1871, to encompass an...
physical barriers. The first population census in BritishIndia was conducted in 1872. Since India's independence in 1947, a census has been conducted...
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