Imagine you are living in India in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.
Write down your input in detail regarding the British conquest during this time
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Answer:
Explanation:
As a person living in England in the times when the Doctrine of lapse and Subsidiary alliance policies were passed, I would not be affected as severely as someone who lives in India at the time being as those policies were in full effect there and did not change much back in Britain itself. However, the economic changes that policies like this caused back in Britain would definitely make life easier for me as the boom in the economy would help me support myself and sustain a better way of life.
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India
1858–1947
1909 map of India, showing British India in two shades of pink and the princely states in yellow
1909 map of India, showing British India in two shades of pink and the princely states in yellow
Status Imperial political structure (comprising British India, a quasi-federation of presidencies and provinces directly governed by the British Crown through the Viceroy and Governor-General of India, the Princely States, governed by Indian rulers, under the suzerainty of The British Crown exercised through the Viceroy of India)[1]
Capital Calcutta
(1858–1911)
New Delhi
(1911–1947)
Simla (summer capital)
(1864–1947)
Common languages
English (Official language)
Regional Languages:
Hindustani
Bengali
Assamese
Punjabi
Pashto
Tamil
Telugu
Other Languages:
Various South Asian languages
Religion Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Sikhism, Buddhism, Jainism, Zoroastrianism, Judaism
Government British Colonial Government
Monarch of the United Kingdom and Emperor/Empressa
• 1858–1901
Victoria
• 1901–1910
Edward VII
• 1910–1936
George V
• 1936
Edward VIII
• 1936–1947
George VI
Viceroy
• 1858–1862 (first)
Charles Canning
• 1947 (last)<
Louis Mountbatten
Secretary of State
• 1858–1859 (first)
Edward Stanley
• 1947 (last)
William Hare
Legislature Imperial Legislative Council
History
• Battle of Plassey & Indian Rebellion
23 June 1757 and 10 May 1857
• Government of India Act
2 August 1858
• Indian Independence Act
18 July 1947
• Partition of India
14 and 15 August 1947
Currency Indian rupee
Preceded by Succeeded by
1858:
Company rule in India
Mughal Empire
1893:
Emirate of Afghanistan
1937:
Colony of Burma
1947:
Dominion of India
Dominion of Pakistan
Title of Emperor/Empress of India existed 1876–1948
The Full title was "Viceroy and Governor-General of India"
Colonial India
British Indian Empire
Imperial entities of India
Dutch India 1605–1825
Danish India 1620–1869
French India 1668–1954
Portuguese India
(1505–1961)
Casa da Índia 1434–1833
Portuguese East India Company 1628–1633
British India
(1612–1947)
East India Company 1612–1757
Company rule in India 1757–1858
British Raj 1858–1947
British rule in Burma 1824–1948
Princely states 1721–1949
Partition of India
1947
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The British Raj literally, "rule" in Sanskrit and Hindustani) was the rule by the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent from 1858 to 1947. The rule is also called Crown rule in India, or direct rule in India.The region under British control was commonly called India in contemporaneous usage, and included areas directly administered by the United Kingdom, which were collectively called British India, and areas ruled by indigenous rulers, but under British tutelage or paramountcy, called the princely states. The region was sometimes called the Indian Empire, though not officially