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28 Μαΐ 2024 · Map of British India in 1914. You can also download a hi-res copy as a pdf (6.9 mbs). This map shows the boundaries and major cities of British India at the time it entered the First World War in 1914.
The British in India. The British East India Company began trading with the Indian subcontinent in the 1600s and, by the beginning of the 18th century, had established trading bases at coastal points, including Calcutta, Bombay and Madras. The main goods traded were cotton, sugar, indigo and opium.
The Frontier in British India provides the first connected and comparative analysis of fron-tiers in northwest and northeast India and draws on visual and written mater-ials from an array of archives across the subcontinent and the United Kingdom.
15 Φεβ 2023 · 1 online resource (xv, 458 pages) : From James Rennell's survey of Bengal (1765-71) to George Everest's retirement in 1843 as surveyor general of India, geography served in the front lines of the British East India Company's territorial and intellectual conquest of South Asia.
18 Φεβ 2013 · The Indian Empire: Imprint: Imperial gazetteer of India. New edition, published under the authority of His Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907-1909. All volumes, inside front cover. Scale: 1:10,000,000. 1 in. to 157 miles. Notes: British India, colored red.
The British Raj (/ rɑːdʒ / RAHJ; from Hindustani rāj, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') [10] was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent, [11] lasting from 1858 to 1947. [12] It is also called Crown rule in India, [13] or Direct rule in India. [14]
1 Αυγ 2020 · The Imperial Gazetteer of India was a gazetteer of the British Indian Empire, and is now a historical reference work. It was first published in 1881. Sir William Wilson Hunter made the original plans of the book, starting in 1869.
