Subdivisions_of_British_India

Subdivisions of British India

Subdivisions of British India

Overview of the administrative divisions of British India

For administrative purposes, British India was divided into the following administrative divisions:

Main administrative divisions

Political units

While British India did administratively not include the princely states, which remained nominally outside the British Raj,[1] under the administration of their own rulers, the relationship of the British with these states was managed by:

Still, the British authorities recurred to the doctrine of lapse when they decided to interfere in the internal matters of a princely state.[2]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Great Britain India Office. The Imperial Gazetteer of India. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908.
  2. [2]
    William Cooke Taylor, A Popular History of British India


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