British India

British India was the name of an area that the current countries India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh and parts of Myanmar (Burma) includes. It was until 1947 a Britishcolony.

The area was to 1858 under a Charter ruled by the British East India Company.

Queen Victoria reigned from 1876 this colony no longer as Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, but they also took the title of Empress of India . One speaks of 1876 to 1947 then also called the Empire of India. Victoria reigned not itself; a Viceroy acted as her Deputy. This in turn made use of the power of Indian nobility (rajahsand Maharajah's). Partly because of this enforced cooperation I managed the British India, whose population is many times greater than that of the ' motherland ', under control.

A large part of British India remained so be controlled by native Princes. They were assisted and monitored by British civil servants. Although the Princes sometimes even possessed its own army and air force, was their independence by treaties and the dominant position of the British strongly restricted.



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[hide] *1 arrival of Europeans  ==Arrival of Europeans[ Edit] == Portugal was the first European country that sailed to the Cape of good hope, and reached India . They established colonies there Bon Bahia and Goa. From the 17th century began to influence the England situation in India. In 1676 the French also established itself on the East coast of India at Pondicherry, South of Madras. Also theDutch East India Company settled in Malabar in India, on the southwestern coast and in the Bengal, contemporary Bangladesh. ==British Period[ Edit] == From 1858, after the Indian rebellion of 1857 was knocked down, the British controlled not including the current Afghanistan the whole of the former Mughal Empire. Around that time, a start was made with the building of a rail network by the subcontinent, that remains one of the most visible legacies of the British reign is. In the course of the 19th century, they have even expanded their Asian possessions with upper and lower Burma, (the southern part of present-day Myanmar), North-East India, India and controlled by Tamils southern tip of the island of Sri Lanka, which was the Mughals never succeeded. Moreover, Sri Lanka fell under a separate British colonial administrator, also the Burmese parts from 1937. India to 1947 was governed as a part of the British Empire. In this period was British India a country where great Division prevailed. That came in part because the British use of the Indians is not always respected. For example, the British caused much unrest by sacred cows to slaughter and eat unclean animals. This created at many Indians dissatisfaction with the presence of the British.
 * 2 British period
 * 3 Decolonization
 * 4 after 1947
 * 5 Provinces of British India
 * 6 see also

For the benefit of their Indian vassals and the Administration founded the British Queen Colonial orders, decorations, and a number of.

Because in the period of the British rule of India in other parts of the world the slavery was abolished, many Indians were recruited to work as a contract worker rather than the African slaves on the plantations in other British colonies, but also in the Dutch colony Suriname. In 1872 a treatise was closed by the Dutch Government with the British Government. This was signed by Queen Victoria on 10 February 1872; King William III of the Netherlands ratified the six days later. The first ship arrived on 5 June 1873 with British Indian contractors, the Lalla Rookh, in Suriname.<sup class="noprint nopopups" len="312" style="line-height:1;"> [source?] ==Decolonization<span class="mw-editsection" len="340" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After the second world war was the British Empire concentrated mainly on matters that are closer to home as a contractor. Therefore it was not prepared for the rise of anti-colonial nationalist movements in their colonies. A mainly non-violent rebellion under Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru formed a part of the way to the independence of British India. Although they are in the West as the great heroes of the independence be seen Azad SkeQar Chandu and his group were according to the Indians themselves the real heroes. Uddam Singh, Chandu SkeQar Azad and Bhagat Singh led with their group the independence of British India in 1947. The Indian subcontinent was divided by the British in the secular State of India and the smaller Muslim State Pakistan. Bangladesh, formerly East Pakistan, became independent from Pakistan in 1971. ==After 1947<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The independence of British India in 1947 marked the end of a 40-year nationalist struggle. The country in India and Pakistan, eventually communicated itself after civil wars following the Division of British India at least half a million lives could cost a total of around 7 million refugees in both directions. The violent religious tensions led to the murder in January 1948 the great INSPIRER of this struggle, Mahatma Gandhi, because that would have been too lenient against the Muslims. The acceptance of India by the British as a Republic in 1949 is seen as the beginning of the modern, postcolonial Commonwealth. ==Provinces of British India<span class="mw-editsection" len="353" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="432" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">British India had just before independence in 1947 the seventeen provinces:


 * Ajmer-Merwara-Kekri
 * Andaman and Nicobar Islands
 * Assam
 * Balochistan (Chief Commissioners Province of Baluchistan)
 * Bengal (Bengal Province)
 * Bihar
 * Bombay (Bombay Province)
 * Central Provinces and Berar
 * Coorg
 * Delhi (Delhi Province)
 * Madras (Madras Province)
 * North-west Frontier Province (North-west Frontier Province)
 * Panth-Piploda
 * Orissa
 * Punjab (Punjab Province)
 * Sindh
 * United Provinces of Agra and Oudh