Subdivisions of British India
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For administrative purposes, British India was divided into the following administrative divisions:
Main administrative divisions
- Provinces of British India
- Presidencies of British India
- Divisions of British India
- Districts of British India
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
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- ↑ Great Britain India Office. The Imperial Gazetteer of India. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908.
- ↑ William Cooke Taylor, A Popular History of British India
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