24/08/2019 · The British landed in India in Surat on August 24, 1608. While India has a rich and recorded history going back 4000 years to the Indus Valley Civilisation in Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, Britain had no indigenous written language until …

Finally after 200 years of British rule, India gained independence from them on 15th August, 1947. Many innocent lives were sacrificed for this achievement and India was also separated from Pakistan. The partition of India and Pakistan spread incidents of …

British raj, period of direct British rule over the Indian subcontinent following the uprising of 1857 and the abolition of the East India Company’s role in managing the region. It was instituted with the Government of India Act of 1858 and lasted until the …

William Pitt’s India Act of 1784 was established by a Board of Control in England both to supervise the East India Company’s affairs and to prevent the Company’s shareholders from interfering in the governance of India. Lord Cornwallis, the new Governor-General appointed in 1786, had more power than Hastings.

26/11/2020 · British raj, period of direct British rule over the Indian subcontinent from 1858 until the independence of India and Pakistan in 1947. Why was the British Empire called the Indian Empire? The term has also been used to refer to the “British in India”.

When the British arrived in India in the 1700s they did not find relatively lightly populated lands like they did in Australia or North America. India was highly populated. It …

22/07/2014 · Close. British rule of India ended in 1947 after nearly 100 years. Until that moment, a small number of Britons administered large swathes of the …

Through the East India Company, Britain was able to dominate the Indian sub-continent, which includes modern-day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka from the 1750s. The British effectively ruled the sub-continent for almost two centuries, from the 1750s until 1947, with relatively little opposition and unrest.