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Facts

Date 1857 - 1947
Location India • Pakistan
Participants British Empire • India • Pakistan
Context East India Company • Government of India Acts • Indian Rebellion of 1857

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Portrait of Queen Victoria seated on a gold throne, wearing a jeweled crown, blue sash, and black and silver gown, with a desk and red drapery in the background.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st earl of Lytton
British merchant ship, Bombay (Mumbai), India
John Laird Mair Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence
Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th marquess of Lansdowne
George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess Curzon
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Helena Blavatsky
Annie Besant and Jiddu Krishnamurti stand side by side in formal attire, Besant holding papers, in a black and white photograph from 1933.
Rabindranath Tagore
Collage of raised-fist silhouettes over a halftone orange, yellow, and green background, featuring historic newspaper text and faint crowd imagery.
Two distressed people sit amid ruins; behind them is a partitioned, color-coded map of India overlaid on destroyed urban buildings.
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