Subdivisions of British India

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

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