Saturday, June 28, 2014

History of India: What was "India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh" called before the partition of 1947?

It was just called India. Not British India, British Raj, but just India. I will show you some world maps of that era. Raj is used in the context of the governance and not of the region itself. British India is used very rarely as the term "British" was considered superfluous on most occasions.

World map made before World War -I


Map during the War -I
World Map during Second World War


Imperial Gazeteer 1909

Finally, India just before partition

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