British India

**British India**
	British colonial rule on the Indian subcontinent
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Instance of	colony (17th century – 1947);
Capital	Kolkata (1690–1911); New Delhi (1911–1947);
Basic form of government	constitutional monarchy;
Official language	Persian (1757–1835); English (1835–1947);
Currency	Indian rupee;
Has part(s)	Company rule in India; British Raj;
Inception	17th century;
Dissolved, abolished or demolished date	15 August 1947;
Different from	British India ; British Raj;
Authority file
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1909 map of India, showing British India in two shades of pink and the princely states in yellow.
The British Indian Empire and surrounding countries in 1909
1909 Prevailing Religions, map of British India showing the majority religions based on the census of 1901
Railway map of India in 1871
Railway map of India in 1909

One mohur (1862) depicting Queen Victoria.
Two silver one rupee coins used in India during the British Raj, showing Victoria, Queen, 1862 (left) and Victoria, Empress, 1886 (right)
Silver one rupee coins showing Edward VII, King-Emperor, 1903 (left) and 1908 (right)
Silver one rupee coins used in India during the British Raj, showing George V, King-Emperor, 1913 (left) and 1919 (right)
One rupee coins showing George VI, King-Emperor, 1940 (left) and just before India's independence in 1947 (right)

in chronological order

Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning / The Viscount Canning
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin / The Earl of Elgin
Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala (acting)
Sir William Thomas Denison (acting)
John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo / The Earl of Mayo
Sir John Strachey (acting)
Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier / The Lord Napier (acting)
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook / The Lord Northbrook
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton / The Lord Lytton
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon / The Marquess of Ripon
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava / The Earl of Dufferin
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne / The Marquess of Lansdowne
Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin / The Earl of Elgin
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston / The Lord Curzon of Kedleston
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto / The Earl of Minto
Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst / The Lord Hardinge of Penshurst
Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford / The Lord Chelmsford
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading / The Earl of Reading
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax / The Lord Irwin
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon / The Earl of Willingdon
Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow
Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell / The Viscount Wavell
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma / The Viscount Mountbatten of Burma

Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma / The Viscount Mountbatten of Burma
Chakravarti Rajagopalachari also known as Mootharignar Rajaji

Lakshmibai, the Rani of Jhansi, one of the principal leaders of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, who earlier had lost her kingdom as a result of Lord Dalhousie's Doctrine of Lapse.
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan founder of the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College, later the Aligarh Muslim University, wrote one of the early critiques, The Causes of the Indian Mutiny.
An 1887 portrait of Queen Victoria as Empress of India, 30 years after the war
Viceroy Lord Canning meets Maharaja Ranbir Singh, 9 March 1860.
1866 stamp of British India, Queen Victoria, 4 Indian anna
Hakim Ajmal Khan, a founder of the Muslim League, became the president of the Indian National Congress in 1921.
Lord Minto, the Conservative viceroy met with the Muslim delegation in June 1906. The Minto-Morley Reforms of 1909 called for separate Muslim electorates.
British and native soldiers in the 1890s
Great Famine of 1876–1878 in south and southwestern India
Mahatma Gandhi with Annie Besant in Madras, September, 1921. In Madurai, Gandhi had adopted the loin-cloth for the first time as a mark of his identification with India's poor.
Chakravarti Rajagopalachari proclaims the Republic of India