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The flags of British India were varied, and the British Empire used several different banners during the period of its rule in the Indian subcontinent. [5] [2] [6] Flags with the Star of India emblem in their design are often referred to as the Star of India flag, and were used to represent India itself [7] and high offices in the government of India.
A Princely State, also called a Native State or an Indian State, was a British vassal state in India with an indigenous nominal Indian ruler, subject to a subsidiary alliance. [145] There were 565 princely states when India and Pakistan became independent from Britain in August 1947.
[10] Revolutionary violence had already been a concern in British India; consequently in 1915, to strengthen its powers during what it saw was a time of increased vulnerability, the Government of India passed the Defence of India Act, which allowed it to intern politically dangerous dissidents without due process and added to the power it ...
The Dominion of India, officially the Union of India, [7] was an independent dominion in the British Commonwealth of Nations existing between 15 August 1947 and 26 January 1950. [8] Until its independence, India had been ruled as an informal empire by the United Kingdom.
A princely state (also called native state or Indian state) was a nominally sovereign [1] entity of the British Indian Empire that was not directly governed by the British, but rather by an Indian ruler under a form of indirect rule, [2] subject to a subsidiary alliance and the suzerainty or paramountcy of the British crown.
The flag was designed based on the swaraj flag design proposed by Pingali Venkayya. [20] [21] The tricolour flag was adopted by the Constituent Assembly of India on 22 July 1947. [19] It was unfurled by the first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on 15 August 1947. [22] National emblem: State Emblem of India [23] 30 December 1947 (Dominion of ...
Political subdivisions of the Indian Empire in 1909 with British India (pink) and the princely states (yellow) Before it gained independence in 1947, India (also called the Indian Empire) was divided into two sets of territories, one under direct British rule (British India), and the other consisting of princely states under the suzerainty of the British Crown, with control over their internal ...
Maruthanayagam Pillai was a commandant of the British East India Company's Madras Army. He was born in a Tamil Vellalar caste family in a village called Panaiyur in British India, what is now in Nainarkoil Taluk, Ramanathapuram District of Tamil Nadu, India. He converted to Islam and was named Muhammad Yusuf Khan.