British Raj: Difference between revisions

| conventional_long_name = India

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| status = [[British Empire|Imperial political structure]] (comprising British India{{efn|a quasi-federation of [[Presidencies and provinces of British India|presidencies and provinces]] directly governed by [[The Crown|the British Crown]] through the [[Viceroy and Governor-General of India]]}} and the [[Princely States]].{{efn| governed by Indian rulers, under the [[suzerainty]] of The British Crown exercised through the Viceroy of India)}}).<ref name="Interpretation Act 1889">Interpretation Act 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c.&nbsp;63), s.&nbsp;18.</ref>

| s2 = Dominion of India{{!}}'''1947:'''<br />Dominion of India

| s3 = Dominion of Pakistan

| image_map = British India (orthographic projection).svg

| image_map_caption = India exactly before separation of Burma superimposed on a map with modern-day country borders

| capital = [[Kolkata|Calcutta]]<ref name=igi-calcutta>{{citation|chapter=Calcutta (''Kalikata'')|title=The Imperial Gazetteer of India|volume=IX |publisher=Published under the Authority of His Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council, Oxford at the Clarendon Press|year=1908|page=260|quote=—Capital of the Indian Empire, situated in 22° 34' N and 88° 22' E, on the east or left bank of the Hooghly river, within the Twenty-four Parganas District, Bengal|url=http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?volume=9&objectid=DS405.1.I34_V09_001.gif|chapter-url=http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?volume=9&objectid=DS405.1.I34_V09_266.gif}}</ref>{{efn|Note: [[Simla]] was the [[summer capital]] of the Government of [[British India]], not of the British Raj, i.e. the British Indian Empire, which included the [[Princely State]]s.<ref name=simla-summer-capital>{{citation|chapter=Simla Town|title=The Imperial Gazetteer of India|volume=XXII |publisher=Published under the Authority of His Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council, Oxford at the Clarendon Press|year=1908|page=260|quote=—Head-quarters of Simla District, Punjab, and the summer capital of the Government of India, situated on a transverse spur of the Central Himālayan system system, in 31° 6' N and 77° 10' E, at a mean elevation above sea-level of 7,084 feet.|url=http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?volume=22&objectid=DS405.1.I34_V22_001.gif|chapter-url=http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V09_266.gif}}</ref>}}<br />(1858–1911)<br />[[New Delhi]]<br />(1911/1931{{efn|The proclamation for New Delhi to be the capital was made in 1911, but the city was inaugurated as the capital of the Raj in February 1931.}}–1947)

| official_languages = {{hlist|[[Urdu]]<ref name=hindi>{{citation|last=Vejdani|first=Farzin|title=Making History in Iran: Education, Nationalism, and Print Culture|location=Stanford, CA|publisher=Stanford University Press|pages=24–25|year=2015|isbn=978-0-8047-9153-3| quote=Although the official languages of administration in India shifted from Persian to English and Urdu in 1837, Persian continued to be taught and read there through the early twentieth century.}}</ref><ref name=everaert-urdu-official>{{citation|last=Everaert|first=Christine|title=Tracing the Boundaries between Hindi and Urdu|location=Leiden and Boston|publisher=BRILL|year=2010|isbn=978-90-04-17731-4|pages=253–254|quote=It was only in 1837 that Persian lost its position as official language of India to Urdu and to English in the higher levels of administration.}}</ref>|[[English language|English]]}}

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