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The Poverty Problem in India was a book published in 1895 by Prithwis Chandra Ray that analyzed various factors that were leading India to become increasingly impoverished under British rule. [1] The book was influential and used extensively as a reference in other works and economic analysis in India throughout the twentieth century.
Catalogue of East India Company ships' journals and logs: 1600–1834. London: British Library. ISBN 978-0-7123-4646-7. Moir, Martin (1988). A General Guide to the India Office Records. London: British Library. ISBN 9780712306294. Seton, Rosemary (1986). The Indian "Mutiny" 1857–58: A Guide to Source Material in the India Office Library and ...
Policies of company rule in India led to the Indian Rebellion of 1857. India was afterwards ruled directly by the British Crown, in the British Raj. After World War I, a nationwide struggle for independence was launched by the Indian National Congress, led by Mahatma Gandhi.
Marks the End of Mughal Dynasty rule over India. 18 July, 24 January: India's first three universities, the University of Mumbai, the University of Madras and the University of Calcutta, are established. 1858: 1 November: British Raj (to 1947) Marks the Beginning Of Direct British Rule Over India For 89 Years(1858–1947). 7 November
A princely state (also called native state or Indian state) was a nominally sovereign [1] entity of the British Indian Empire that was not directly governed by the British, but rather by an Indian ruler under a form of indirect rule, [2] subject to a subsidiary alliance and the suzerainty or paramountcy of the British crown.
The first two, he felt, were essential for India to be an egalitarian and tolerant society, one befitting the principles of Truth and Ahimsa, while the last, by making Indians more self-reliant, would break the cycle of dependence that was perpetuating not only the direction and tenor of the British rule in India, but also the British ...
The India Papers collection is an archive containing roughly 4,200 bound volumes (40,000 individual reports) [1] dated from the post-Mutiny reorganisation of the Indian government up until Indian Independence in 1947 and is essentially a collection of almost all things relating to British India.
Political subdivisions of the Indian Empire in 1909 with British India (pink) and the princely states (yellow) Before it gained independence in 1947, India (also called the Indian Empire) was divided into two sets of territories, one under direct British rule (British India), and the other consisting of princely states under the suzerainty of the British Crown, with control over their internal ...