Presidencies and provinces of British India
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title:
Presidencies and provinces of British India
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The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent. Collectively, they have been called British India. In one form or another, they existed between 1612 and 1947, conventionally divided into three historical periods:
- Between 1612 and 1757 the East India Company set up "factories" in several locations, mostly in coastal India, with the consent of the Mughal empero
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1612–1947 British directly-ruled administrative divisions in India
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidencies_and_provinces_of_British_India
date created:
2005-12-31T00:07:36Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T00:48:57Z
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