The British Raj in India

© Howard R. SpendelowGeorgetown Universitydraft as of 18 Feb 2006

Empires in IndiaThe Moguls and the British Raj

© Howard R. Spendelow

Georgetown Universitydraft as of 08 Feb 2007

Empire of Timur at his death in 1405

India – late 20th c.

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Mughal Empire, 1526-1707

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Mogul Empire

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Great Britain in India, 1797-1805

Charles Cornwallis (1738-1805)

Memorial to Cornwallis, Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh

artist’s vision of sati, 1849

from John Scudder’s Tales for Little Readers About the Heathen

William Bentinck, on sati

Rammohun Roy (1772-1833)

Lord Dalhousie, James Andrew Braun Ramsey (1812-1860)

Oudh (annexed 1856)

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India, 1856

Sepoys (1799 engraving by François Balthazar Solvyns)

Delhi stormed by sipahi (sepoys), 1857 (1859 lithograph)

Secundra Bagh, Lucknow (photo by Felice Beato, c. Mar/Apr 1858)

Bahadur Shah II (in detention in Delhi, May 1858)

Execution of “mutineers”, 1858

Princely States of India, 1930s

British Empire in South Asia, 1893

British India in 1935

India and the Princely States, 1937

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