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The early history of British expansion in India was characterised by the co-existence of two approaches towards the existing princely states. [7] The first was a policy of annexation, where the British sought to forcibly absorb the Indian princely states into the provinces which constituted their Empire in India.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 December 2024. 1948 military invasion of Hyderabad State by the Dominion of India Operation Polo The State of Hyderabad in 1909 (excluding Berar) Date 13–18 September 1948 (5 days) Location Hyderabad State, (parts of South and Western India) 17°00′N 78°50′E / 17.000°N 78.833°E ...
This is a timeline of Indian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in India and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of India .
The indifference of the British towards native Indian rulers and the annexation of Oudh furthered dissent. The Marquess of Dalhousie's policy of annexation, the doctrine of lapse and the projected removal of the Mughals from their ancestral palace at Red Fort also led to popular anger. Map of India during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 January 2025. 1961 Indian military operation This article is about the Indian annexation of Goa. For the conquest by Portugal in 1510, see Portuguese conquest of Goa. "Operation Vijay (1961)" redirects here. For the 1999 Indian operation, see Kargil War. See also: Annexation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli ...
India suffered a series of crop failures in the late 19th century, leading to widespread famines that caused tens of millions of deaths in India. [37] Responding to earlier famines as threats to the stability of their control, the East India Company had already begun to concern itself with famine prevention during the early colonial period. [38]
It does not cover the incorporation of the enclaves of French India into India during the period 1947–1954, nor the annexation of Goa and other districts of Portuguese India by India in 1961. Other contemporaneous political entities in the region in 1947, such as Sikkim , Bhutan , Nepal , and the Maldives , were unaffected by the partition.
The history of independent India or history of Republic of India began when the country became an independent sovereign state within the British Commonwealth on 15 August 1947. Direct administration by the British, which began in 1858 , affected a political and economic unification of the subcontinent .