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In August 1947 British rule ended on the Indian subcontinent.
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At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, British rule ended in the Indian subcontinent.
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Portrait of Queen Victoria, from an 1882 photograph by Alexander Bassano. She had...
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Lord Lytton served as viceroy of India from 1876 to 1880.
From Forty-One Years in India: From Subaltern to Commander-in-Chief, by Field Marshal Lord Roberts of Kandahar (Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts), 1901
A rendering of a British merchant ship approaching Bombay (Mumbai) Harbour; oil on...
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Lord Lawrence served as viceroy of India from 1864 to 1869.
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Lord Lansdowne governed India as viceroy from 1888 to 1894.
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Lord Curzon was viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905.
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Popularly known as Lokamanya (“Revered by the People”), Bal Gangadhar Tilak was an...
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Russian-born spiritualist Helena Blavatsky went to India in 1879 and cofounded the...
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Theosophical Society members Jiddu Krishnamurti and Annie Besant, 1933.
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Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore was a leading intellectual and inspiring figure...
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The progressive and politically active imam Aga Khan III, at a Paris horse racetrack...
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British politician John Morley, pictured about 1890–94, served as chief secretary...
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Lord Hardinge governed India as viceroy from 1910 to 1916.
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Popularly called India Gate, the All India War Memorial arch in New Delhi was designed...
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Lord Chelmsford served as viceroy of India from 1916 to 1921.
From Men of Mark: A Gallery of Contemporary Portraits of Men Distinguished in the Senate, The Church, In Science, Literature and Art, The Army, Navy, Law, Medicine, Etc., photographed by Lock and Whitfield with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper, F.S.A., published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London, 1876-1883.
Muslim leader Mohammed Ali Jinnah was instrumental in the creation of Pakistan as...
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Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi championed nonviolent methods of anti-colonial resistance.
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Portion of a wall in Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, Punjab, India, with bullet marks...
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Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi with delegates of the Round Table Conference, London.
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Indian leader Motilal Nehru helped found the Swaraj Party in 1923.
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Statue depicting Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi during the 1930 Salt March.
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Indian leader Subhas Chandra Bose was twice elected president of the Indian National...
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As India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru was in office for more than 16...
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Muslim leader Liaquat Ali Khan served as the first prime minister of Pakistan, from...
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A mural painted by Beohar Rammanohar Sinha, c. 1952, Jabalpur, India, depicting the...
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Lord Wavell served as viceroy of India from 1943 to 1947.
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Lord Mountbatten, viceroy of India from March to August 1947, oversaw the transfer...
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Indian independence leader and unifier of India, Vallabhbhai Patel.
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