Colonial India
Imperial entities of India
Austrian India 1778–1785 Swedish India 1731–1813 Dutch India 1605–1825 Danish India 1620–1869 French India 1668–1954
Portuguese India (1505–1961)
Casa da Índia 1434–1833 Portuguese East India Company 1628–1633
British India (1600–1947)
EIC in India 1600–1757 Company rule in India 1757–1858 British rule in Portuguese India 1797–1813 British Raj 1858–1947 British rule in Burma 1824–1948 Princely states 1721–1949 Partition of India 1947

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

Main administrative divisions[edit]

• Provinces of British India
• Presidencies of British India
• Divisions of British India
• Districts of British India

Political units[edit]

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:

• Agencies of British India
• Residencies of British India

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[edit]

• Territorial evolution of the British Empire

References[edit]